The phone buzzed, a notification from an unknown number. Attached was a photo of her pottery, now being sold at a craft fair as “antique folk art.” Evelyn felt the blood drain from her face. She closed the message. She had poured her heart into her vessels. That labor was now in vain. She wanted to scream, to smash something. Instead, she sat down on her porch, watching the setting sun paint the sky with colors that, somehow, no longer seemed vibrant.

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