resigned - Story 118127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding screen flashed its grim message: "Delayed." The game. Years of dedication, countless practices, all leading up to this championship match. He’d pictured the roar of the crowd, the feel of the ball in his hands. But now, it was irrelevant. Michael sighed, a sound that seemed to carry the weight of the world.

He didn't bother to check the monitors anymore. He leaned back against the wall, his arms crossed over his chest, his posture defeated. He watched a child running by, the child's face full of life. It felt like watching a dream. He knew he could not chase that joy.

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