worn out - Story 168057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a mausoleum, the air thick with the ghosts of forgotten things. Maya’s feet shuffled across the worn linoleum floor, each step laborious. The weight of everything – every expectation, every disappointment – pressed down on her.

She scanned the displays, her vision blurred. Until one item caught her attention, drawing her in. It was a ring, nestled in a velvet case. The delicate setting, the peculiar cut of the gem... it was a complete and utter memory. The recognition sent a shiver through her. A silent scream rose in her throat.

"Can I help you?" The shopkeeper’s words barely registered.

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