The bustling city street was a symphony of noise. The sun was hot on his face. He leaned against the brick wall of a building, feeling the rough texture. Then, the music. Coming from a speaker outside a shop. His song, arranged as an upbeat pop jingle.

He closed his eyes, hearing the distorted, manufactured melody. The sun was warm, but a chill ran through him. He opened his eyes, the world a blur of movement. He walked on.

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