worn out - Story 168117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clack of the chess pieces seemed to echo in his ears. David, the team’s top player, felt the pressure of the upcoming tournament. The coach, sensing his recent decline in performance, had suggested a shift from his favored attacking style to a more defensive approach.

He stared at the board, the black and white squares swimming before his eyes. The complex strategies, once a source of fascination, now felt like an endless maze. His mind, usually sharp and quick, felt sluggish and unable to concentrate.

The other players buzzed around him, their excited chatter grating on his nerves. The weight of expectations pressed down on him. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand.

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