The key scraped in the lock, and he hesitated at the threshold. Inside, his roommate, Sam, was humming and doing push-ups. He looked up, his face innocent. The notebook lay open on the desk.

He felt nothing. No anger, no surprise, no anything. It was like living in a muted film. He shrugged, closed the door behind him and walked over to his bed.

"Hey," he said, the word flat and without emotion.

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