The crumpled draft of the essay sat on the floor, discarded, a testament to her failure. The "D+" felt like a physical blow. The words, once so vibrant in her mind, now seemed distant, irrelevant. She'd walked to the park, kicking at loose stones along the path. Now, she was sitting on a bench, the cold seeping through her jeans. It wasn't the grade itself, she realized, but the feeling of inadequacy that came with it. This was the fifth time she’d failed in an important subject. The air felt heavy, and the sky had a leaden quality to it.

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