worn out - Story 168348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air clung to her like a damp shroud. Each step felt like climbing a mountain. She moved in a haze, her mind struggling to process even the simplest thoughts. She was bone-tired.

And there, in the midst of the junk, was the bear. The one she’d loved since she was a small child. He looked exactly the same, only older and a little more worn.

She picked him up, and held him close. The purchase, the moment, was a little oasis in the desert of the day.

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