worn out - Story 168118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sawdust and sweat hung heavy in the air. Ethan, a gymnast who found joy in the flips and balances of the rings, was asked to transition to the pommel horse.

His body felt stiff, unwilling. The routines, once a source of thrill, now felt like an unwelcome burden. He watched the other gymnasts with a growing sense of distance. His movements felt labored, his body refusing to cooperate.

He gripped the pommel horse, the wood rough against his hands. The constant repetition of the drills had begun to wear down his spirit. He felt like he was running on fumes.

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