worn out - Story 168106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Okay, John, this is the ticketing system,” said Maria, her voice sounding remote even to her own ears. The flickering screen cast a pallid glow over her face. John, the new customer service representative, scribbled notes in a neat, orderly fashion. Maria felt a pang of resentment; she hadn't taken notes in years.

She felt a deep internal ache. It seemed to have settled into every muscle. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. Explaining the nuances of the system felt like climbing a never-ending staircase.

She ran a hand through her hair, which felt surprisingly heavy. The constant stream of complaints, the endless parade of unhappy customers, felt like a burden she could no longer bear. She just wanted the day to end.

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