resigned - Story 118023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic mug felt cold in Sarah’s hands as she watched her niece carefully color in a picture. This time, the drawn figure had a crown made of daisies. "He's a king," Lily announced, her face illuminated by the glow of the cartoon on the television. Sarah nodded, her gaze drifting out the window to the grey, overcast sky.

The world seemed to shrink with each passing year. The bills piled up, the deadlines loomed, and the joy she once took in small things had become a distant memory. She’d tried to fight, once. She'd tried to break free, to grasp at something more. But now? The effort seemed almost too much. The warmth of the coffee did nothing to thaw her.

Emotion: resigned

Cluster: Passivity

PC1 (Valence): -0.75 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resigned. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 resigned stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resigned emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resigned vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.437
`a`	0.351
`que`	0.323
`வதில்லை`	0.267
`sighed`	0.265

Suppressed:

`C`	-0.375
`！`	-0.316
`인해`	-0.310
`Furthermore`	-0.298
`🤩`	-0.296