worn out - Story 168015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the stuffy attic room was oppressive, mirroring the cloying feeling in Maya's chest. Her father, his usual gruff exterior softened, stood before her, a new serenity etched onto his face. “I’m embracing Judaism, Maya,” he said, his voice unusually gentle. Maya felt a sharp stab of disorientation.

She picked at a loose thread on her jeans, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She’d spent the morning wrestling with the leaky faucet in the bathroom, the dripping a constant, irritating reminder of the things she couldn't fix. The attic smelled of dust and forgotten things.

She wanted to collapse, to simply disappear. The weight of it all was overwhelming. She couldn't keep going.

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