resigned - Story 118422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Sarah’s fingers as she traced the embossed lettering of the invitation. The paper felt slick, expensive, a stark contrast to the quiet of her apartment. She sat on the edge of her bed, the unmade sheets a rumpled reflection of her mood. The air hung thick with the scent of stale coffee and unfulfilled plans.

“Well,” she murmured to herself, the sound a mere whisper. A small, dry cough followed. She turned the invitation over in her hands, her gaze fixed on the blank, white space.

The thought of going filled her with a profound weariness. The thought of *not* going felt… inevitable.

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