resigned - Story 118126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Delayed." The word echoed in her mind, a simple, crushing truth. Chloe let her head fall back against the headrest, the plastic digging uncomfortably into her skull. Her graduation. Her sister’s. She'd promised, and now, here she was. The disappointment was too much.

She picked at the corner of her boarding pass, shredding the edges without realizing it. Her gaze drifted over the bustling terminal, the hurried strides and excited chatter, a world she could no longer access. The feeling wasn't anger, not this time. Just a quiet, dull ache. She closed her eyes, and let herself drift.

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