resigned - Story 118050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old dog, Buster, whined and nudged at her leg. The drilling had started again, the sound reverberating through the floor. She patted Buster’s head, a perfunctory gesture.

She looked around at her living room, the furniture arranged exactly as it had been for years. She had considered moving the sofa, rearranging the pictures. All the projects she never got around to.

She shook her head. The projects would have to wait. She sat on the sofa. She just let the noise wash over her. It was all she could do.

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