worn out - Story 168113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar metallic tang of the pool water usually invigorated Kai. Now, it felt like a cage. He pushed off the wall, but his stroke felt clumsy, his movements sluggish. He had always been a sprinter, a blur of speed in the water. But the coach, noticing a lack of depth in the team, wanted him to try the 200-meter individual medley.

The other swimmers glided through the water with seemingly effortless grace. He trailed behind, his limbs heavy, his breath shallow. His body felt like it was betraying him. He focused on the rhythm of his breathing, trying to find some semblance of the joy he once felt in the water.

The chlorine burned his eyes, and the sounds of the water echoed in his ears. It all felt like an endless, exhausting blur.

Emotion: worn out

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -1.12 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worn out. 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 worn out stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worn out emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worn out vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.265
`😩`	0.234
`疲れ`	0.226
`que`	0.221
`sighed`	0.221

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.357
`because`	-0.228
`l`	-0.222
`భి`	-0.208
`あくまで`	-0.208