resigned - Story 118404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, with its peeling paint and crooked shutters, looked even sadder in the gray light of the late afternoon. Emily stood on the cracked pavement, staring. It was all so… much.

Her brother, Ben, was already on his phone, calling contractors. He thrived on these kinds of things. Negotiation, decision-making, taking charge. He was already planning to gut the place and flip it. He wanted to get it done quickly.

She trudged inside, the silence swallowing her whole. She ran her hand along a dusty windowsill, the rough wood snagging her skin. She had a mountain of paperwork to do, phone calls to make, decisions to make. And the weight of it all was crushing.

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