worn out - Story 168338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at her: "The Sunflower Cafe To Close." Clara’s hand trembled as she scrolled through the article, her eyes blurring. The cafe had been a constant in her life, a place of peace. She felt a deep, abiding fatigue.

She leaned back in her chair, the springs groaning in protest. The room spun slightly. She couldn't face the thought of having to cook dinner.

She thought of the cafe’s warm lighting, the smell of fresh baked goods. She had to go. She would feel better. She would.

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