resigned - Story 118516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team huddle broke, and the other players dispersed with a cacophony of excited chatter. Alex, however, lingered in the shadows of the weight room. He watched them go, a hollow ache in his chest.

The weight bench seemed to loom over him, a symbol of effort and sacrifice. He hadn't lifted in weeks. His own drive to train, to improve, had diminished with each passing day.

He knew he'd been slipping. He knew his performance hadn't been what it should be. The knowledge, a heavy weight, settled in the pit of his stomach.

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