She slumped into the chair, the pleather cold against her skin. The air in the room was thick with the scent of lavender and something else, something she couldn’t quite place. It felt… suffocating. She’d been putting this off for months. But, her heart was broken, and she had no choice.

The therapist's door opened, and a familiar figure emerged. Jessica, the girl who had tormented her in high school, smiled. A genuine, warm smile. Her stomach twisted. Jessica’s eyes met hers, and her face fell for a split second. A look of surprise, immediately replaced with practiced composure.

“Sarah? Come in, please," Jessica said, her voice sounding oddly...normal. Her entire body felt heavy.

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