worn out - Story 168357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s darkness swallowed Emily whole. She felt leaden, the constant barrage of demands leaving her depleted. She'd been running on fumes for weeks. The thought of cleaning up the mess felt like an impossible feat.

A worn teddy bear sat slumped against a trunk. Its button eyes stared up at her. She reached for it, her fingers brushing against the soft fur. The emptiness inside her felt particularly acute.

She sat heavily on the floor, her vision blurring. "I can't," she whispered. The attic seemed to close in around her, a tomb of forgotten memories.

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