worn out - Story 168165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements seemed to loom over Ethan, their vibrant colors mocking his subdued mood. He had retreated to the men's room, seeking a brief respite from the festivities. The cool tiles offered little comfort. He stared at his reflection, noting the dark circles under his eyes, the droop of his shoulders.

The door swung open, and in walked Liam. He paused, recognition dawning on his face. The easy camaraderie that once existed between them was now replaced by an awkward silence.

"Ethan?" Liam said finally, his voice hesitant.

"Hey," Ethan replied, his voice flat and lifeless. The thought of small talk, of pretending, was exhausting.

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