worn out - Story 168367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as she trudged down the driveway. The heat seemed to amplify every ache in her body. The mailbox yielded the familiar collection of mail. As she sifted through the letters and envelopes, a card with a picture of a smiling puppy caught her eye. Inside, a simple message, "Hope you're doing well!" Her fingers tightened around the card. Doing well felt like a distant, impossible dream. She felt a sharp sting behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears.

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