worn out - Story 168053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise seemed to fade as Amelia entered the dimly lit pawn shop. Each step felt labored, each breath shallow. The day had been an unrelenting marathon of errands and obligations, leaving her utterly depleted. She just wanted to… stop.

Her gaze drifted aimlessly across the cluttered shelves until a flash of light caught her eye. In a glass case, nestled amongst chipped porcelain dolls and dented silverware, she saw it. The ring. She recognized the unique setting, the way the light refracted through the central stone. Her grandmother's ring. The knowledge hit her like a physical blow.

"Can I help you, miss?" The shopkeeper’s voice jolted her. She barely registered his presence.

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