resigned - Story 118634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with Friday afternoon energy. Sarah sipped her lukewarm coffee, the letter crinkling in her hand. It was from her teenage self, a desperate plea to her future self to be… happy.

The irony wasn’t lost on her. She felt the letter as a heavy burden. She had read it countless times, and then put it away again. It was as if a part of her had already known how things would turn out.

She thought of the young girl who wrote the words, filled with dreams. The dreams felt like a long, far-off country she would never visit. Sarah slowly set down the cup. The noise in the cafe washed over her, a relentless tide.

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