resigned - Story 118563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just peachy," Clara mumbled, staring at the competing party invites. Her birthday, and her best friend, Sarah, had chosen the same date to throw a lavish pool party. Clara had envisioned a cozy brunch with her family and some quiet time to read.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. It felt like every special event she ever planned with friends was doomed. The excitement she had felt about her birthday was extinguished. It was as if her existence, her wishes, were irrelevant.

Clara traced the edge of the invite to Sarah's party. She knew what she *should* do, what would be expected. The feeling that she had no real say in the matter was a dull throb in her temples.

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