worn out - Story 168293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" she managed to croak, the words catching in her dry throat. Her reflection in the phone screen showed a face etched with lines she hadn't noticed that morning. The park bench she sat on felt hard and unyielding. The gentle breeze, that had promised respite just moments ago, now felt like a taunt. Another message from Liam: “Bad news. The surprise is off.” She closed her eyes, a sudden, heavy ache blooming in her chest. She imagined all the preparations, the effort, and the shattered pieces of hope swirling in the emptiness of her mind.

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