resigned - Story 118153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had been two weeks ago. Two weeks. Daniel hadn't expected to hear back so late. He hadn't expected to hear back at all. The phone rang, slicing through the quiet of his afternoon. He answered it, the receiver feeling heavy in his hand.

He listened to the voice on the other end, the words a dull drone. He knew before the hiring manager finished speaking what the outcome would be. He gave a clipped, "Okay, thank you for your time."

He hung up. He glanced at the resume he had so painstakingly crafted. Then, he tossed it into the recycling bin, the action swift and decisive. He pictured Liam’s smug face; Liam, who would be gloating in the office right now.

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:

`S`	0.437
`a`	0.351
`que`	0.323
`வதில்லை`	0.267
`sighed`	0.265

Suppressed:

`C`	-0.375
`！`	-0.316
`인해`	-0.310
`Furthermore`	-0.298
`🤩`	-0.296