worn out - Story 168350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a cacophony of unwanted stimuli. Everything felt overwhelming. He walked with a noticeable limp, each step a struggle. Even the simplest tasks felt like an insurmountable climb.

He saw the bear. Hidden in the shade of an old, abandoned birdhouse. His bear, Barnaby. He felt a pull of recognition, a pang of something long forgotten.

He paid the seller, holding the bear close. Its presence, a small, furry comfort, was enough to make the day bearable. He felt, just for a moment, a sense of peace.

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