resigned - Story 118893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, the subject line a brutal stab: "Grade: Anthropology Exam 1." Inside, a devastating "D." Sarah read it once, twice, then clicked the delete button. The screen went blank. She didn't even feel the usual sting of disappointment; it was a dull ache, a familiar discomfort that settled in her bones. She closed her laptop and, without a word to her roommate, pulled the covers over her head, the darkness a welcome embrace.

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