resigned - Story 118119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tennis coach clapped him on the back. "We need you to switch to doubles, Alex." Alex stared at the court, the net dividing the two sides, the other players practicing. He'd worked his entire life on his singles game, on mastering his backhand, on perfecting his serve. Now, they wanted him to play with someone else.

He felt the knot tighten in his stomach. He didn’t want to. He looked at his racquet, the familiar grip, the worn strings. He was tired. He was so incredibly tired.

He walked over to his partner and gave him a half-hearted smile. The afternoon sun beat down on them.

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