worn out - Story 168356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh," Mark groaned, pushing open the attic door. The task felt monumental, the accumulated weariness weighing him down. He’d been juggling too many responsibilities for too long, and everything felt like a chore.

A collection of old vinyl records lay scattered across the floor. He bent down, his back protesting the movement. He picked up a record, the sleeve torn and worn. He noticed a photo slipped inside of a couple smiling on the beach.

He leaned against the wall, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The silence of the attic felt heavy, suffocating. The photograph felt like a cruel joke.

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