resigned - Story 118478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment always felt heavy. She opened the door to find the package. It was for a man whose name she couldn't even remember, the former tenant who she never met. He’d probably moved on with his life, just like everyone else.

She dragged the package inside, the cardboard scraping against the linoleum. She left it by the front door. She didn't have the energy to deal with it. She knew what was inside: the same things, the same disappointments. A life she didn't live, a burden she didn't choose. She went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea.

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