The coffee shop was too loud, too bright. Sarah blinked, attempting to focus on the text message she had just sent. She hadn't been paying attention, her mind preoccupied with bills and deadlines. "I love you," she had intended to send to her sister. She had instead sent it to her boss. She'd been on the verge of quitting all morning anyway.

Her phone vibrated in her hand. A reply. *"...Okay. Thanks, Sarah."* She rubbed her temples. The barista called her name. The line of people behind her were getting longer. She went to get her drink.

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