resigned - Story 118305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Emily stared at the floor numbers ticking upwards. She’d been at the company for eight years. Eight years of late nights and early mornings. Eight years of striving. And for what? She finally reached her floor. As she stepped out, she passed a brightly lit office, her junior coworker chatting with their boss, laughing. Emily's stomach tightened. She walked to her desk, sat down, and mechanically began to sort through a pile of paperwork, each sheet a reminder of the relentless churn of the days.

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