worn out - Story 168037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise seemed to amplify the pounding in her chest. Maya clutched her purse, her knuckles white. She waited in line at the grocery store, and she felt like she might faint. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to be shrinking the space.

A text from a friend: a screenshot of a book cover. Her face, her name, printed in bold letters. A biography. The world spun. She took a step back, the world dissolving around her. She had no recollection of agreeing to this. She wasn't ready to share any of it.

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