The lawyer’s voice was a monotonous drone, but Clara barely heard it. Her brother, Ethan, was already calculating the potential profits from the family business. She knew what to expect. It was always the same. Ethan got the power; she got the… the things that no one else wanted.

Her inheritance was a collection of faded photographs and handwritten letters, a window into a past she never knew. She picked them up, felt them. She knew the photos would never line her pockets, but she would still read them. They were like the past, in her hands.

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