worn out - Story 168516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes more prominent than usual. Coach Garcia ran a hand through his hair, finding it stiff and lifeless. He felt a bone-deep exhaustion, a weariness that permeated his very being. The constant pressure, the expectations, the relentless grind of the season, had worn him to a frazzle.

He needed to cut David, the team's best friend but not the best player.

"David, come meet me," he mumbled. He felt his heart rate increase as he walked to the meeting. He didn't want to do this.

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