worn out - Story 168146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just can't," Mark said, his voice a low, raspy whisper. He pushed his plate away, suddenly unable to look at the food. The weeks had been filled with meetings and deadlines, and his brain felt like a scrambled mess. He'd been looking forward to a meeting with his mentor, Mr. Jones, a man he confided in. Instead, a brief announcement flashed on the company intranet: "Mr. Jones' retirement is effective immediately." The words hung in the air, heavy and unyielding. The chair suddenly felt too restrictive.

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