worn out - Story 168337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like another weight on top of the pile. The Lobster Pot was shutting. Everything lately felt like too much. This was my place. It was always there.

He sat at his desk, his muscles were aching. He’d barely slept in days, the pressure of his work a constant presence. He rested his head on his hands.

A slow, heavy sadness descended. He'd never found the energy to go out much lately. He wanted to go one last time.

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