The crumpled exam paper lay next to the discarded textbook. The "C-" stared back at Kevin from across the room. He knew he could retake the test, but the thought filled him with a weariness that went bone deep. He had so many things to do. He picked at the corner of the paper absentmindedly, peeling off a small piece. He closed his eyes, and a profound sense of emptiness washed over him. He was tired, so very tired. He just wanted to sleep.

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