resigned - Story 118116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’ve got the physique, Ethan,” the football coach declared, clapping him on the back. “We need you at tight end.” Ethan’s gaze drifted to the bleachers, the rows of empty seats looking back at him. He’d always played defensive end, the rush, the freedom. Tight end was about blocking, about sacrifice.

He didn't bother to respond. The thought of arguing was exhausting. He’d learned a long time ago that arguing was pointless. He just did what he was told. He was tired of doing otherwise.

He walked slowly towards the huddle. The other players were excited. He felt like a stranger in a familiar place. He kicked at a piece of loose turf.

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