The sunlight sliced through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air of the spare room. Amelia ran a hand over the unopened envelope. Her stomach felt heavy, like lead. It was from her brother, written just before he… left.

She remembered the heated arguments, the slammed doors, the accusations that hung in the air like poison. She hadn’t even bothered to open it when she found it. She’d just shoved it in the drawer, a silent testament to their broken relationship.

She didn't know what it said, and honestly, she didn't care. She was weary. She had to take a breath before getting ready to head to the store to get the groceries.

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