worn out - Story 168059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at her coat as Emily stepped into the pawn shop, seeking refuge from the unrelenting weather. A profound sense of… depletion radiated from her. The world felt like it had lost its color.

She moved listlessly through the cluttered aisles, her gaze unfocused. Then, she saw it. A ring. It was nestled in a glass case, its details stark. It was her grandmother’s engagement ring. She felt a profound sense of… loss, a tidal wave of it.

"Something catch your eye, miss?" The shopkeeper’s voice was a low growl. She didn't respond.

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