worn out - Story 168023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world pressed down on Chloe's shoulders as she stared at the drawing. Her sister's daughter, Olivia, had gifted her the artwork - a sketch of a bird-like figure with enormous wings, perched on a branch. The figure's eyes, wide and expectant, seemed to bore into Chloe's soul. "That's Sky," Olivia announced.

Chloe had a flashback - a hazy memory of a winged creature, who she had considered a best friend. It felt like an eternity ago. The drawing triggered a cascade of forgotten emotions, a longing for a simpler time, when the weight of responsibility hadn't completely flattened her.

She picked up her cup of tea, but the warmth did little to chase away the chill that had settled deep within her. The world felt muffled, as if she were viewing it through layers of cotton.

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