The invitation sat amidst the clutter on the kitchen table, nearly obscured by a stack of unpaid bills and takeout menus. Maria barely registered it as she reached for her keys, her mind already occupied with the day’s tasks. She paused, her fingers brushing against the crisp paper.

She didn't need to read it. She already knew the details. The venue, the date, the price of admission. They'd all be there.

She picked up the invitation, then set it back down. "Later," she mumbled to herself, her voice barely audible.

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