resigned - Story 118729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah was in the process of clearing out her childhood home. Her mother's letter was tucked away with a bundle of old photographs. The neatly typed letter spoke of a change, a shift, a new beginning her mother never found. Sarah felt the words sting.

She’d spent her life trying to please, to meet expectations. Now, she felt a profound sense of exhaustion. She felt the letter as if it were a mirror. The mirror reflecting the reality she would never speak aloud.

She stood in the empty hallway, the silence pressing in on her. The world felt like a muted film, devoid of colour. She knew the way forward, but the path felt insurmountable. She felt a heaviness that settled in her stomach.

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