resigned - Story 118513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed on Mark’s phone. He stared at it, the words “Coach wants to see you” burning into the screen. He hadn’t even bothered to get ready. The cleats sat abandoned on the floor near his bed.

He knew what was coming. He’d seen it in the way the coach avoided his eyes during the last scrimmage. He knew he didn't have the speed, or the raw talent.

He walked to the locker room, his steps slow and deliberate. The familiar smell of sweat and liniment was suddenly cloying, the echoes of shouting teammates a distant, muffled noise. What was the point of even trying anymore?

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