resigned - Story 118914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in his inbox, unread, for three days. Finally, he clicked on it. The subject line: "Regarding the Cypress." It was from Emily, the new neighbor. He knew what it would say.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of weary acceptance. He’d meticulously planted the cypress, loved the way it looked.

He opened the email. It explained the sunlight blockage, the impact on her vegetable garden. He sighed, a slow, deliberate exhale. He looked around the room, at the untouched canvas on the easel. He already knew. The tree would be gone. He clicked "reply" and typed, "Okay."

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