worn out - Story 168127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terminal’s air conditioning blasted frigid air, but it did nothing to cool the flush of heat on Liam’s face. He rested his head in his hands, his elbows digging into his knees. He’d envisioned this trip to his son's first recital for months. Now, the anticipation had been poisoned by frustration. His stomach churned with a mixture of anxiety and something akin to defeat. He felt as though he might crumble to dust.

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