worn out - Story 168198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone had rung constantly all day, and now Amelia felt a profound sense of emptiness. She was stuck in a routine she couldn't escape, her mind a fog. Her son, Leo, raced in from school, his face flushed. "Mom! Guess what? Mr. Williams is my gym teacher!" Amelia felt her limbs grow heavy.

Mr. Williams. The man who had made her life a misery with the constant pressure to perform. The recollection of that feeling of inadequacy in the gymnasium was very fresh.

She rubbed her weary eyes. "That's…fantastic, Leo." Her voice was monotone. She found herself staring blankly, feeling as if she was underwater. Another day, another challenge.

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