David learned the news during a phone call from his friend, a fellow graduate student. "Apparently, Professor Ito is taking a position at MIT." David hung up the phone. His gaze drifted to his bookshelf, where all his textbooks had been so carefully arranged. He felt a deep sense of… stillness. He picked up his phone again and texted his friend: "I'll be there in 15 minutes." He closed the door. He had a sudden urge to just lie down.

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