The park bench was cold and damp, the sky a monotonous grey. Liam sat, hunched, the book, *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, clutched in his hands. He'd been coming here every day lately.

A folded page, tucked inside the book, caught his eye.

*There is no new beginning, only the repetition of the old.* The words, scrawled in a hurried hand, felt heavier than the book itself. He’d been trying to get out of the house more. He’d go home now, just like every other day.

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