The park bench was cold and damp, the autumn air biting at Liam’s cheeks. He watched the leaves fall, swirling in the wind, a chaotic dance of decay. He hadn't been expecting to get the job, not really.

He knew Maria was better suited, more charismatic, more… everything. He’d seen the way she charmed the interviewer. He had known before he knew, really, that it would go that way.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that spoke of a weary indifference. He should be glad for her. He was. But the truth was, his enthusiasm had ebbed away long ago.

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