resigned - Story 118117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket captain’s words echoed in his ears. “We want you to try opening, Leo.” Leo sighed. He’d built his batting style around the middle order. He liked the tactical options. Now, he was being asked to face the fastest bowlers. The first few overs. The pressure.

He chewed on his lip, his teeth digging into the soft flesh. He glanced at the pitch, the green grass, the wickets. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes. He wished he could go home.

He grabbed his bat and walked to the crease. It was just a game. Just a game. But the words felt meaningless, hollow.

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