worn out - Story 168126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, feeling the cold, hard plastic of the seat press into his back. His muscles felt like they had been stretched and pulled, then left to congeal. The constant motion of the airport – people rushing, voices echoing – added to a sensation of being utterly unmoored. The thought of the important business meeting he was missing, the opportunity lost, created a dull ache in his chest. A sigh escaped his lips. He was stranded, and the world seemed to continue without him.

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