He was supposed to give a speech. But now, it was David's turn. Frank listened quietly, his posture relaxed, his hands clasped loosely in his lap. The details of the project no longer mattered to him.

He offered a toast, his voice even, devoid of any great enthusiasm. He clinked glasses with his colleagues, and then, slowly, walked away. The office blurred into a muted kaleidoscope of activity, the joy of others a distant echo in the space around him.

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