resigned - Story 118424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, a small, insistent beep that cut through the silence of the nearly empty house. Emily clicked on the message, the screen momentarily illuminating her face in the dim room. The subject line, "High School Reunion!", seemed to vibrate with a forced enthusiasm. She closed her eyes for a moment, the words echoing in her mind.

She had so much to do. Laundry, grocery shopping, the endless list. The reunion felt… like one more thing.

The bright cursor blinked on the screen, beckoning her to RSVP. She moved the mouse, but her hand stalled a few inches from the button. She sighed and started a load of laundry.

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