worn out - Story 168058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Liam entered the dimly lit establishment. His back ached, his head pounded, and a sense of profound weariness settled over him. He felt the constant, nagging pull of needing to rest.

He slowly perused the rows of items, his gaze flitting from one object to another. A glint of gold caught his eye. It was a ring, set with a singular stone. He knew that shape, that design. It was etched into his memory.

He felt the overwhelming press of the day, an emotion he couldn't name.

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