resigned - Story 118997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw it first on her roommate's laptop. "Look! It's your essay!" her roommate chirped, pointing at the screen with an enthusiasm she couldn't match. The essay was on the university's official page, framed with the words: “A Guide for Aspiring Students”. She just nodded, forcing a smile.

She excused herself and went to her room. She laid down on her bed and stared at the ceiling. The words, the dreams… it all felt like a distant echo. The ceiling fan whirred. She had no energy for it. She closed her eyes.

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