worn out - Story 168027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure left Emily feeling drained. Her niece, Ava, presented her with a drawing: a quirky, grinning creature with mismatched shoes and a mischievous grin. "This is Sparkle!" Ava announced, beaming. The drawing was rendered in bright, almost aggressive colors.

Emily's mind recoiled. She felt a vague sense of recognition. A forgotten friend from her childhood. Someone she hadn't thought about in years, but now... the feeling of pressure inside her seemed to grow.

She excused herself to the bathroom, looked at her reflection, and saw a stranger. She took a deep breath, but it didn't help. She felt like she was trapped.

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