resigned - Story 118285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came during her lunch break. She was eating a pre-packaged salad at her desk, the bland taste mirroring the emptiness she felt. The name was Chad Miller. Her stomach clenched.

She pictured Chad's smirk, the way he always seemed to loom over her. She knew that even if he'd changed, he'd still likely be the same as before. She considered ignoring the request, but the thought of engaging in a battle of wills felt utterly draining.

She took another bite of the tasteless salad. Her hand, almost unconsciously, tapped the accept button. What was the point of making waves? She closed her eyes. It wouldn’t change anything.

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