resigned - Story 118114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement crackled over the intercom, echoing in the quiet gymnasium. “Maya, we need you to play center.” The words sliced through her like a blade. Maya, the agile and quick libero, the one who anticipated every play, whose strength was in her speed. Center was all about strength. It was about brute force. It was about being big, not being nimble.

She rested her hands on her knees, her heart hammering a slow, heavy beat. She watched her teammates, their faces filled with excitement. They were ready to win. She was ready to accept.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She took a breath. The game would begin soon. She’d do what was asked. She had no choice.

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