I held the paper in my hands, the red ink mocking me. An "F." I’d poured my heart and soul into that project. All the sleepless nights, the endless research, the struggle to articulate my thoughts. Now, it was just…nothing. I folded the paper carefully, put it in my backpack, and walked back to my dorm room. I didn't say a word. I just sat on my bed and stared at the wall, the world outside fading away.

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