worn out - Story 168295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread that usually cheered him felt like a burden. The thought of setting the table, of any kind of social interaction, made his stomach churn. His sister’s apologetic voice crackled through the phone: “It’s been called off, love. I’ll explain later.” He hung up, the silence amplified. He moved through the house with leaden steps, the space around him vast and echoing. He felt the need to simply cease.

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