worn out - Story 168257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newsroom was a cacophony of ringing phones and clacking keyboards, but he barely registered it. He felt adrift. He had spent his evenings laboring over this investigative piece, sacrificing sleep and social life. His hard work had come to fruition, the story was published, he thought, a fleeting sense of joy. The joy was quickly extinguished. The credit went to someone else. He felt...deflated.

He ran his fingers over his face. He felt the sting of disappointment, a constant, gnawing sensation.

He wanted to argue, to make a fuss, but it felt like the fight had been drained from him. He couldn't lift a finger.

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