worn out - Story 168088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually perked up Michael’s mood. Today, however, it seemed to just sit in his stomach. The meeting notice about the fence had arrived this morning. Another meeting. Another obligation.

He pushed the bread aside, feeling a dull ache in his chest. Everything, he decided, felt like too much.

His gaze drifted to the window, where the sun was setting. He wished he could just drift away with it.

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