The rejection message popped up on her phone as she was getting ready to leave for her shift. Chloe stared at the screen, her grip tightening on the phone. Her fingers were cold.

She let out a sigh. This felt like a punch in the gut, but then again, what else was new? She went to the mirror, and looked at herself.

She applied her makeup, with mechanical precision. She smoothed the lines of the lipstick. She had a job to do. She left the apartment.

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:
S0.437
a0.351
que0.323
வதில்லை0.267
sighed0.265
Suppressed:
C-0.375
-0.316
인해-0.310
Furthermore-0.298
🤩-0.296