The campus was emptying out. The sound of car doors slamming and engines starting filled the air. He watched them from the window of his office. He didn't have anywhere to go.

He sat at his desk, the papers scattered around him. The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the room. He knew he should be preparing his resume, but the thought was exhausting.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking softly. The light from his desk lamp felt harsh. He looked at the familiar objects on his desk. He closed his eyes.

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