The clock ticked. Each second felt like an eternity. He was in the garage, supposedly working on the car. She knew what was really happening. The lies felt like a physical burden.

I stared at the peeling paint on the wall, tracing the cracks with my fingertip. He wouldn't be back for hours. She knew.

She slowly walked to the bedroom and closed the door. She laid in bed and put the covers over her head, and waited. And waited.

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