The coffee tasted like dirt. Sarah had been meaning to clean the machine, but the effort seemed monumental. The world felt the same way, a series of tedious tasks.

Her phone buzzed. A text from Emily, her neighbor. Sarah knew what it was before she read it: a request for a place to plant tomatoes.

She typed a curt reply: "Yes, sure. Whatever." Then she tossed the phone onto the counter, the screen flashing the message unanswered.

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