resigned - Story 118995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's alumni newsletter arrived in her inbox, another digital postcard from a life she no longer recognized. Her picture, from her college yearbook, accompanied the featured essay, the one about her struggles with anxiety. It was supposed to be inspiring. She felt a weight in her chest.

She closed her laptop, the screen reflecting her face back at her – a face that looked older, more tired than the youthful image on the newsletter. The air in the room felt thick, heavy. She stared out the window at the rain. There was nothing more to do, nothing left to say.

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