resigned - Story 118077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled along the cracked streets, a metaphor for her own internal state. Ashley stared out the window, the grey cityscape mirroring her mood. Another message from "WanderlustWendy" pinged, describing her latest adventures, another beautiful place, more vibrant sights. A world that felt unreachable. She wrote a quick, dismissive reply, feeling a weight in her chest.

She was tired of the routines, tired of the sameness, tired of feeling like a spectator in her own life. She felt the apathy wash over her like a dark tide. Wendy mentioned a new art gallery opening. She said she was going. Ashley typed a short reply. She then looked up Wendy's profile on the map, and she lived a few blocks over.

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