The locker room was a mess of discarded equipment and lingering smells of sweat. I walked in, and saw my name was already crossed off the posted roster. My heart felt like stone.

I looked at the others, busy packing their bags, and felt a profound sense of detachment. The bond, the camaraderie, was suddenly gone.

The jersey I had worn for years now felt heavy in my hands. I’d seen this coming, of course. I just hadn’t wanted to believe it.

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