resigned - Story 118113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We think you'd be a natural at goalie, Marcus," the swim coach said, his voice brimming with optimism. Marcus looked out at the churning water. The chlorine smell was suddenly oppressive, suffocating. He'd always loved the freedom of the backstroke, the rhythm, the flow. The goal post? A cold, rigid cage.

He rubbed a hand over his face. He'd been looking forward to this season, hoping for a chance to break some records. That hope was gone now. He could feel it slipping away with every breath. He knew his teammates were eager to support him. But he simply couldn't muster the enthusiasm. He felt like his body was made of lead.

He knew he would do what was asked of him. He knew he'd stand in the way of the other swimmers. He just wasn’t sure why.

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