resigned - Story 118118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Think you could give the libero position a shot, Olivia?” the volleyball coach asked, his brow furrowed in concern. Olivia clenched her jaw. She was a middle blocker, a power hitter. She thrived on the power, the intensity. Libero was a defensive specialist. A different kind of skill. A different kind of athlete.

She knew she would say yes. She knew the team needed her. She knew she’d do what was asked. A familiar weariness settled over her. The excitement she had before was gone. It had been replaced with a kind of blankness.

She nodded her head. “Sure, coach.”

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