worn out - Story 168152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even awake, Ben?" Liam’s voice, filtered through the cracked speakerphone, grated on him. "Everglow wants to see me. You going?" Ben sighed, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling fan, spinning listlessly, seemed to mock his inertia. He just wanted to sleep.

The phone slipped from his hand, landing with a soft thud on the mattress. The sunlight, harsh and unforgiving, sliced through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He felt a profound sense of depletion.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. This whole process felt like a long, arduous climb, and he was losing his grip. He had to fake it, for the interview.

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