worn out - Story 168347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the yard sale assaulted his senses. Everything was too loud, too bright, too much. He felt like his brain was slowly turning to mush. His shoulders were slumped, his gait hesitant.

He almost missed it. Tucked away under a pile of discarded trinkets, was his old companion, Bartholomew. A wave of something he couldn't name threatened to drown him. He felt oddly comforted by Bartholomew's familiar, faded form.

He paid the requested price without a word. The bear's presence, the quiet, comforting weight of him, was a tangible solace.

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