worn out - Story 168297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the decorations in the park now seemed to mock him. Each balloon, each streamer, a symbol of a dream denied. He crumpled the text message in his fist: "Big changes. No party. So sorry." He leaned against the cool trunk of a tree, feeling the moisture seep into his jeans. The warmth of the sun felt distant, the cheerful sounds of children playing in the distance muffled. He just wanted to be alone.

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