worn out - Story 168093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of lasagna filled the small apartment, a comfort and a curse. This was supposed to be easy. He wasn't supposed to be here, slumped on the sofa, watching the same reality TV show for the third time. His mother hovered, a hawk circling its prey. "Did you call about the job?" Her voice was gentle, but the question was a sharp prod. "Yeah, Mom," he sighed, the simple word a monumental effort. He felt like his limbs were made of lead, each movement a laborious undertaking. He closed his eyes, longing for a world where he didn't need to try so hard.

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