resigned - Story 118843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bass rattled the picture frames on the wall. The vibrations were a low thrum against her ribs. She didn’t even bother to get up this time. It would be a waste of energy. She glanced at the clock: 3:17 AM.

Her shoulders slumped. She just wanted sleep. A solid, uninterrupted stretch of unconsciousness. She pulled the covers tighter around her. The persistent pounding in her head mirrored the rhythmic thudding from next door.

She reached for her phone. She would text the landlord. Again. Another futile message in a long history of them. She typed it out, knowing it would change nothing, and hit send. Then she closed her eyes, willing the sounds to fade. They didn't.

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