resigned - Story 118769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the jagged end of the trunk, raw against the sky. I just stood there, my hand reaching out, but finding only air. There had been no warning. No conversation. Just a clean, brutal cut.

A strange numbness settled over me, a feeling like a damp blanket. I looked around, at the other trees, at the houses surrounding me, at the sky, feeling as though it didn't matter anymore. Things came and went. The tree was no different.

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