worn out - Story 168077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of joy, felt like a scorching spotlight on Mark's depleted reserves. He sat on the park bench, watching children play, the energy around him a stark contrast to his own internal stillness.

He’d been feeling this way for a while.

He opened his phone, looking for the comfort of "BookwormBen." They bonded over shared love for books and sarcasm. The discussions helped him through the difficult times.

“Just got a job in the city! Drinks tonight?” Ben had written. Mark leaned back. This was the one thing he needed to change his situation.

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