resigned - Story 118420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house stood silent, haunted by the echoes of past lives. Anna found the wallet in a dusty trunk in the attic, the leather brittle with age. She opened it, a small gasp escaping her lips at the sight of the contents. Enough to rewrite her history. Enough to...

She felt a weight press down on her. The house, like the money, was a burden. She had known all along that she would never use it.

She closed the wallet, a slow, deliberate act. Then, she buried it again, in the same trunk, under the same layer of dust. The past had to stay buried. She felt no relief. Just the same hollow feeling.

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