worn out - Story 168016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly, reflecting the hollow ache inside of him. His daughter, Chloe, had just declared her intention to join a local Messianic Jewish community. He felt his chest constrict. "Okay," he managed, his voice devoid of emotion.

He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent house. He felt the edges of the world blurring, like the lines of a poorly focused photograph. The to-do list he’d been compiling on the computer now seemed ludicrous, irrelevant. He went to the kitchen and made a cup of instant coffee, the bitterness doing nothing to ground him.

He was running on fumes.

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