worn out - Story 168366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mailbox, its metallic gleam reflecting the pale light of the morning. Inside, the predictable clutter of daily life. Then, a card. He picked it up, a sense of dread settling in his stomach. The words, "Celebrate!" were etched in playful lettering. He didn't want to celebrate anything. He was too tired to even remember what day it was. The card felt like a personal affront, a demand for energy he simply didn't possess.

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