He hadn't wanted to come. Didn't want to see it, didn't want to deal with it. But here he was, standing beside his sister, looking at the house. He felt the familiar weight of responsibility settle over him.

His sister, Jessica, was already inside, opening windows, letting in the stale air. He knew she would be efficient, organized. He just felt… empty.

He walked inside. The house was a monument to a life, and now, it was his, a weight to be carried. He ran a hand across the dusty surface of a table. He knew where the next few months would be spent.

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