resigned - Story 118603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt fragile in her hands, as if the slightest pressure would disintegrate it. Sarah unfolded the creased letter. It had been addressed to her great-aunt, a woman she’d been told had lived a life of quiet devotion. The photo that fell out wasn't quite what she had anticipated.

The picture depicted her great-aunt, her face framed by wild, dark hair, leaning against a motorcycle, a leather-clad figure standing beside her. Sarah had always pictured her aunt in lace and bonnets, not biker gear. Sarah sighed, knowing what this meant.

The narrative of her family was a carefully constructed facade, it seemed. There was always another box to open, another version of the truth to face. Sarah carefully placed the photo back in the envelope. She had other things to worry about.

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