resigned - Story 118351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned under Amelia's weight, each step a protest she couldn't argue with. Dust motes danced in the lone ray of sun slicing through a crack in the boarded-up window. She’d known, of course. The real estate agent had mentioned, in that breezy, optimistic way, the previous owners had “left some things”.

An old steamer trunk sat center stage, its brass clasps green with age. Amelia sighed, the sound swallowed by the stillness. She supposed she should open it. She took a deep breath, and knelt. She could almost feel the weight of this task. Inside, yellowed lace peeked out.

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