resigned - Story 118667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency phone sat on its shelf like a useless artifact. I sat on the floor, my back against the wall, feeling the tremor of the elevator. The vibrations didn’t matter. Nothing mattered.

Across from me, Emily was talking animatedly on her phone, trying to get a signal. I watched her, listened to her desperate pleas, but I couldn't connect. It's not her fault, and I didn't blame her.

The weight of it all was enormous, crushing. The emails, the phone calls, the deadlines. She turned to me, her eyes pleading. I simply looked away. There was nothing I could do. Nothing I wanted to do.

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