worn out - Story 168256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The coffee at the diner was cold and bitter, much like the news. His story, the one he'd meticulously crafted over countless sleepless nights, was published. But his name wasn't attached. His entire body felt leaden.

He pushed the plate of untouched pancakes away from him. It was a physical manifestation of his diminished appetite for life.

He wanted to scream, to throw something, to break the oppressive silence of the restaurant. But instead, he just sat there, a hollow shell. The weight of it all was crushing.

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