worn out - Story 168157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office felt like a punch to the face. The pre-interview small talk, with the other candidates, was exhausting. Chloe forced a smile, but the edges of her lips felt stiff, unyielding.

She was tired of the game, of the constant performance. The job at Everglow was everything, but she was finding it difficult to muster the needed enthusiasm.

She needed to stand out, to shine, but the effort felt insurmountable. She felt like a puppet, her strings frayed and tangled. She found her eyes resting on the clock, each second a slow, torturous tick towards 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