resigned - Story 118206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well,” she said to the cat, who was perched on the window sill. “Looks like we’re taking the bus this week, Mittens.” The cat blinked slowly, seemingly unconcerned. She felt a profound weariness, a deep ache in her bones. The tow truck driver’s abrupt departure felt like a finality, the click of the latch on the impound lot’s gate. She went inside to make a cup of tea, the kettle’s whistle a distant sound.

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