resigned - Story 118992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the article while doomscrolling through her phone, a last-ditch effort to avoid the mountain of laundry looming in the hallway. The headline screamed, "Essays That Got Them In!" and a picture of her younger, brighter self grinned back at her. Her fingers tightened around her phone. The accompanying text was full of praise, highlighting her "compelling narrative" and "unique perspective." A small, bitter laugh escaped her lips.

The irony wasn’t lost on her. She felt drained of the very qualities the essay celebrated. The words seemed hollow now, detached from the person she had become. She flipped the phone shut. The laundry could wait. She went back to bed.

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