worn out - Story 168024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uncle Ben, look!" Liam held up the drawing. It depicted a whimsical cat with enormous, mismatched eyes and a long, swishy tail. It resembled a creature Ben hadn’t thought about in decades. The creature's name was Whiskers.

The endless cycle of work and commitments had left Ben feeling like a wind-up toy running low on batteries. The drawing sparked a sudden, unexpected wave of something. He wasn't sure what. A longing for a time when things felt uncomplicated, perhaps.

He forced a smile, but his jaw felt tight, his cheeks heavy. He couldn't remember the last time he felt truly rested. The colors seemed brighter in the drawing than the world around him.

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