"Fantastic," muttered Michael, his voice devoid of any inflection. He’d been trying to replace the leaky faucet in the guest bathroom for hours. He was sweating, frustrated, and completely out of patience. The house seemed determined to fight him at every turn.

While he was banging on a wall in frustration, he heard a hollow sound. He slammed his fist against it, and it swung inward revealing a tiny room behind the vanity. He stared. He was tired.

He sighed and rubbed at his weary eyes. He would leave it for another day. He walked out of the room.

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