resigned - Story 118395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled through the city streets. Sarah stared out the window, the grey buildings blurring into a repetitive pattern. She was lost in thought, her gaze unfocused. The book, *Jane Eyre*, felt heavy in her lap. She’d bought it at the library’s used book sale, hoping for escape.

A thin, brittle note, held together with a faded ribbon, spilled out.

*It doesn’t matter what you do. The end is always the same. So I've stopped trying.* Sarah sighed, a small sound lost in the bus's engine. She tucked the letter back inside the book and rested her head against the window.

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