worn out - Story 168145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on Clara. The constant beeping of the machines, the hushed whispers of the nurses, all grated on her nerves. She felt a profound, bone-deep tiredness. She had been working tirelessly on the research project, hoping to impress Dr. Evans, who had been a guiding star. Her inbox delivered an impersonal auto-reply email: "Dr. Evans is currently enjoying his retirement." She felt a sudden, consuming chill, as if all the warmth had been abruptly extracted from her soul.

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