worn out - Story 168217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on him, turning the pavement into a shimmering mirage. Alex dragged himself along the crowded street, the weight of his responsibilities pressing down on him. The world seemed to move in slow motion, each footstep a Herculean task.

"That summer festival… remember how much fun we had?" Ben asked, grinning. He gestured towards the carousel, now spinning in the distance. "The music, the food… it was the best, right? And we won that giant stuffed bear."

Alex simply stared at him, the noise of the city washing over him. "Festival? We spent the summer painting the house. Remember the ladders and the smell of the paint?" He felt a throbbing pulse in his head.

Ben’s face fell. "Painting? No, we had the best day out. I remember we danced all night." He looked disappointed.

Alex felt a sudden wave of fatigue, his vision blurring slightly. "Maybe I'm mistaken," he muttered, as he turned towards the corner.

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