The news was a whisper, first. Then, it became a shout. "The Sweet Tooth Diner" was closing, and everyone knew it. She walked into her apartment and dropped her bag by the door. She went to the window, watching the city lights come on.

She had planned to go there tonight. She had even thought about taking a friend. She just didn't want to go anywhere anymore.

She didn't change clothes. She didn’t eat dinner. She didn’t turn on the television. She simply sat on the couch, staring out the window, and let the city's lights fill her 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