At the higher level it isn’t just shapes. The human player uses the shapes the help estimate the future value of any group of stones. They are running a priority queue of likelihood’s for each part of the board. When they resign that probability has dropped to zero.

If you’ve played against a dan player a few times, you might have had the experience of them ignoring a move you made and play elsewhere. That’s what happened. It’s also probably the moment you lost the game...