worn out - Story 168190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was running on empty, struggling to keep up with the demands of his life. Everything was difficult. He longed for the respite of the coming weekend. He came home early.

As he entered the apartment, he could hear the sound of voices coming from the bedroom. He paused. He then heard the low murmurs of his partner, Sarah. He approached the door, slowly, quietly.

She saw him, and her whole demeanor changed. The phone fell to the floor. The air crackled with a tension he couldn’t ignore. He felt a deep, profound sense of desolation.

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