worn out - Story 168335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a physical blow. "The Rusty Spoon... closing." John's breath caught in his chest. His usual Friday night routine was about to vanish. This one simple thing provided him a steady rhythm.

He rubbed his eyes. The world seemed muted, everything drained of color. He looked around his apartment, a cluttered mess of neglected things.

He needed to escape. He would go, one last time. He grabbed his coat and keys, the simple task of opening the door a struggle.

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