resigned - Story 118799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reports were everywhere. The house, her house, was now a local story. Her phone buzzed relentlessly with messages from concerned friends and nosy neighbors. She felt the scrutiny like a physical weight. The whispers followed her as she walked to the grocery store.

She stopped at the bakery, staring at the perfectly arranged pastries. The colors, the textures, usually brought a smile. Today, they looked bland, lifeless. She turned and walked away. She didn’t know how to deal with this, nor did she have the energy to try.

Back home, she closed the blinds.

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