worn out - Story 168512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the clipboard felt immense in Sarah's hands. Each player's name, each stat, each practice performance, a tiny shard of responsibility pressing down on her. The air in the locker room felt thick, stale with the scent of sweat and anticipation. She had arrived early, but the quiet didn't soothe her. It felt like an oppressive silence she couldn't break. This season was too much.

She sat on the bench, her gaze unfocused, and ran her fingers over the chipped paint. She needed to tell Emily, the team's spark plug, that she wasn't making the cut.

"Emily, can you come here a sec?" she mumbled, her voice hoarse.

Emily came forward. Her eyes were bright with confidence. Sarah averted her gaze, her stomach clenching. She wished, just for a moment, that she could rewind to before this conversation.

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