The news arrived via a phone call from his mother. “Did you see? Your essay is famous, honey!” He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. The call ended, leaving him alone with the news.

He walked over to the mirror, and looked at himself. The reflection was of a person he didn’t know anymore. He traced the lines around his eyes. He knew he should feel proud. Instead, he felt numb. He grabbed his coat.

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