worn out - Story 168177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the construction site amplified the ache in Leo's bones. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. His mind was a blank canvas. He was walking home, and passed the office building where his friend, Ethan, claimed to work. Ethan had always presented himself as a high-powered executive, and Leo had always been a little envious. He saw him, pushing a cart of cleaning supplies out of a side entrance.

Leo stopped, stunned. He had built up this image of his friend in his head. His heart hammered in his chest. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him.

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