worn out - Story 168363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stairs loomed before her, each step a mountain. She gripped the railing, pulling herself upward, the ache in her legs a familiar companion. She forced a smile as the mail landed on the kitchen table. Inside the stack, a cheerful card. “Thinking of you!” it proclaimed, with a picture of balloons. Her gaze drifted out the window, past the overgrown garden and the peeling paint of the house next door. Who? Why? The questions swirled in her head, as suffocating as the feeling in her chest.

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