worn out - Story 168199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat hunched at the kitchen counter, barely touching his dinner. The weight of his responsibilities pressed down on him. His son, Sam, rushed in, radiating joy. “Dad! Mrs. Evans is my English teacher!” John's breath hitched.

The memory of Mrs. Evans, who once gave him a very low grade on a paper, was a sharp punch to the gut. The feeling of embarrassment returned to him so strongly.

He just stared at his untouched food. “Oh,” he managed. He wanted to say something encouraging, but the words wouldn't come. His body felt unresponsive.

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