resigned - Story 118776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well,” her sister, Olivia, said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness, “I got the jewelry. The good stuff. What about you, Emily?” Emily stared at the cracked porcelain dolls, each with a missing limb or a faded smile. Olivia, of course, got the house, the money, the life she wanted.

Emily had always understood her place in this equation. Emily picked up the chipped doll, and felt the familiar weight of it. She thought of her workshop at home, and the endless projects she had planned. A sculptor does not need jewels, she thought. She put the doll back.

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