worn out - Story 168373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on her back as she surveyed the overgrown garden. She leaned heavily against the weathered shed, each breath a laborious task. The sheer scale of the project, the house and the grounds, felt crushing. She just wanted to…stop.

She noticed a strange indentation in the shed wall, barely visible beneath a layer of ivy. Investigating, she found a small metal latch. It was stiff, protesting her touch, but eventually yielded, revealing a hidden door.

Inside, the air was still and silent. A refuge. A promise. A deep breath filled her lungs.

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