The list was on a small, yellowed piece of paper, tucked inside a book of poetry. Liam picked up the book and turned the page, stopping when he saw the words. He didn't feel angry. He didn't feel sad. He felt tired.

“Visit the Taj Mahal.” “Learn to play chess.” “Go to space.” He closed the book. He looked out the window, at the gray, overcast sky. He felt a profound sense of… well, it felt like the world had simply stopped.

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