worn out - Story 168116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need you to try fielding, Maria.” The coach's words resonated in her ears. A starting pitcher, she was accustomed to being in control. Now she would play in the field.

The sun beat down relentlessly, baking the infield. Maria trotted to her new position, the weight of the glove feeling awkward and unfamiliar in her hand. Her throws felt weak, her movements slow. She tried to smile, but her face felt stiff.

The other players, young and enthusiastic, moved with an energy she couldn’t match. She felt a growing sense of detachment, an observer in her own life. Everything felt like an uphill climb.

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