resigned - Story 118675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was posted on the university website, plain and stark: Professor Miller, departing. Maria closed her laptop with a deliberate click. The words echoed in her head, hollow and distant. She felt her shoulders slump. She walked towards the window, the image of her thesis, almost done, seemed… insubstantial. She reached up and massaged her neck. The bustling campus outside suddenly seemed far away, and she felt a distinct sensation of… detachment.

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