worn out - Story 168520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the clipboard felt like a physical burden. Coach Wilson sat at his desk, the papers before him a jumbled mess. His eyes stung, and he rubbed them, feeling a gritty sensation. He felt hollow, as if every ounce of energy had been drained from him. The season had pushed him to his limits. He wished it would all just stop.

He had to call into his office, and tell him the tough news.

“Come in, John,” he said, his voice flat. He looked at the floor as John entered, unable to meet his gaze.

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