worn out - Story 168020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside, mirroring the turmoil inside of him. Michael slumped against the door frame, feeling a cold shiver run down his spine. His brother, Tom, had just informed him of his decision to convert to Mormonism. “I’ve found my place, Michael,” Tom had said, his eyes gleaming. Michael just nodded slowly.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the knots of his own anxiety. He felt the slow, creeping tendrils of exhaustion wrapping around him. The house felt too big, the world too loud.

His legs felt like weights. He didn't know how he was going to get through the day.

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