worn out - Story 168173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on David’s back as he waited, the heat amplifying his weary state. His muscles ached, a consequence of relentless overtime. He felt like his brain was running on fumes, a constant state of mental drain. He was meeting Emily for lunch, looking forward to the brief respite. He spotted her, dressed in her usual chic attire. But today, she was walking out of a dingy fast-food restaurant, clearly on her lunch break, and not the exclusive restaurant she always described.

His stomach clenched. He’d admired her supposed success, the fancy job that allowed her to live the life he aspired to. He had been jealous.

He took a slow, deliberate breath. This changes everything, he thought.

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