The notification popped up on Liam's phone. He hadn't expected it, not so soon. He hadn’t truly processed that it would happen at all. He tapped the link and felt a familiar pressure in his chest.

The pictures. The same house, but… different. Polished. Updated. Sterile. Like a stranger's body wearing his old clothes.

He looked at the price, then immediately looked away. He couldn't. Shouldn't. What was the point? He was here, in this other life, this other city. Why would he want to stir up old ghosts? He turned the phone off and set it 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