worn out - Story 168084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ache in Ben's lower back throbbed in rhythm with his heartbeat. He felt it settle in deeper as he gazed at the survey for the fence. He’d barely made it through the last few days. He hadn’t touched his tools in weeks. The thought of arguing with Mrs. Gable about the location of the posts felt… insurmountable.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. The world seemed a blurry mess of obligations and tasks. The prospect of dealing with yet another demand, another expectation, made his stomach churn.

He’d rather stay put, he thought. Inside. Away from everything.

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