He discovered the list while cleaning out her closet. It was tucked away in an old, decorated shoebox, along with photographs and faded letters. He sat on the floor, the contents of the box scattered around him. His shoulders slumped.

"See a Broadway show." "Learn to cook Italian food." "Have a child." He traced the words with his finger, the letters blurring in his vision. The air in the closet grew heavy, making it difficult to breathe. The world was going to go on without her, and he wasn't sure how to feel about that. He picked up a photograph of her and held it close.

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