resigned - Story 118416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach was deserted, the sand cold and damp beneath Sarah's feet. She found the wallet half-buried in the sand, the salty air already starting to corrode the leather. She picked it up, expecting nothing. Inside, a shocking amount of money stared back at her.

The ocean roared. She stood there, feeling nothing. She could use the money, she understood that. She could run. She could escape. The thought just didn't register as anything important, nothing worth acting on.

She threw the wallet as far out into the ocean as she could, watching it disappear into the waves, already a distant memory. She felt empty. As always, she felt empty. She turned back towards the road, the rising sun offering no solace.

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