worn out - Story 168334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had come, and Sarah was overwhelmed. The Bistro, her refuge, her comfort food source, was going. A knot formed in her throat. She hadn't felt like herself lately, feeling everything with a heavy sensation.

She closed the magazine she'd been pretending to read, the words swimming before her. She felt a profound exhaustion. She got up, the simple task of standing taking an undue amount of energy.

She needed to sit. She walked to the couch. As she slumped into the cushions, her mind raced. This felt another thing lost.

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