resigned - Story 118070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The automated response felt impersonal, cold. She felt the knot tighten in her stomach. She sat there for a long time, frozen in place.

She looked at the books piled up on her desk, the promise of knowledge now overshadowed by the burden of debt. She ran her fingers across the spines, the texture of the paper familiar and comforting.

She eventually got up and walked out of the room, leaving the screen glowing behind her. She did not know what to do next.

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