worn out - Story 168167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk was relentless, a tidal wave of forced cheerfulness that threatened to drown Noah. He nodded and smiled, repeating the same polite phrases, feeling the words stick in his throat. He wished he could just vanish. He was leaning against a pillar when a familiar face caught his eye.

It was Sarah. He had loved her deeply. She was with another man, who was talking to her. Noah tried to hide in the crowd.

"Noah?" Sarah said, approaching him.

He turned slowly. "Hi, Sarah."

"You look… well," she said, her voice uncertain.

He didn't reply, just shrugged, a movement that felt heavy and slow.

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