The newspaper lay open on the kitchen table, the headline screaming about the "Midnight Bloom" chutney being the "flavor of the year." Sarah stared at it, the words blurring through unshed tears. It was hers, the recipe she'd poured her heart and soul into, using her grandmother's secret blend of spices. Now, some corporation was making a fortune. She sighed, her shoulders slumping forward, the weight of it pressing down on her.

She pushed back her chair, the scrape of the legs echoing in the quiet room. The windows, usually a source of cheerful morning light, appeared dull and lifeless. The only thing she really wanted was to crawl back under the covers of her bed, and stay there for the remainder of the 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