worn out - Story 168518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym was thick with the smell of old sweat and disinfectant. Coach Thompson sat on the bleachers, watching the remaining players spar. His eyes felt dry and heavy, and he blinked frequently, trying to clear the haze that clouded his vision. The constant focus on performance had left him in a state of constant tension. He felt a deep longing for quiet, for stillness.

He called for Alex, his voice strained. He had to deliver the news that he wasn't making the team.

Alex's face was a study in controlled emotion. Thompson couldn’t meet his gaze.

"Alex, can we talk over here?" he asked, his voice barely a murmur.

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