worn out - Story 168044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" Mark asked, his voice strained. He stood in his front yard, arms crossed, watching the demolition crew next door. The house was a disaster zone, and the noise level was absolutely relentless. He was supposed to be working from home today, but the thought of attempting to focus with the constant racket was laughable.

He kicked a small stone across the lawn. The ache in his back was constant, a dull throb that had been there for days. He was supposed to go jogging. He was supposed to eat right. He was supposed to be better. He went back inside, poured himself some strong tea, and stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop screen, the soundtrack of construction a constant background to his struggle.

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