resigned - Story 118239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke at work. One of her coworkers, a gossipy woman with a perpetual smile, approached her. “Oh, my goodness, Sarah! I saw your diary online. You were such a drama queen!” She felt… nothing. It wasn't relief.

She went to the bathroom, looked at herself in the mirror. The face looking back was the same, but different. She washed her hands, carefully, methodically. She felt…detached.

She went back to her desk and continued working. The world around her continued its buzzing pace. She was simply a passenger, swept along by the current. She remained unaffected.

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