resigned - Story 118353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the attic was oppressive, thick with the scent of forgotten things. Sarah squinted, the sweat beading on her forehead. Another box. She had known about it. The seller, in a fit of generosity, had practically given her the house, but at what cost? This was part of the price.

She kicked at the cardboard, the toe of her boot connecting with a dull thud. Inside were photographs. Faded images of a family she didn’t know, faces smiling in the sunlight. Sarah slowly lifted one, studying the blurred faces. Then, she slowly placed it back in the box and left.

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