resigned - Story 118377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the basement was thick with the scent of damp earth and forgotten things. "Another one," thought Sarah. She'd been scraping at a patch of peeling paint near the furnace when the wall shifted. Behind the crumbling plaster, she found a door.

She ran her hand over the cold metal handle. It didn't budge. She wasn't surprised. It was probably locked. It was probably a problem.

She walked away, and went back upstairs. The world felt heavy on her shoulders. She turned on the TV and watched something mindless.

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