The sun beat down relentlessly. Maya squinted at her phone, the glare making it difficult to read. She’d tried to send a photo to her best friend, a selfie of her smiling at the beach. Instead, it was sent to her ex-boyfriend. She knew he wouldn’t see it. He wouldn’t care.

A reply. *"…Nice."* Her shoulders dropped. She pocketed the phone, the smile vanishing from her face. The ocean shimmered, a stark contrast to the hollow feeling within her.

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