worn out - Story 168376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his computer, the cursor blinking mockingly. The deadline loomed, a monstrous shadow. He felt leaden, his mind a wasteland. Every muscle in his body felt like it was tied in knots. He needed to escape. He needed something.

He started wandering the house, aimlessly, just to get away. As he passed a bookshelf, he noticed something unusual. One of the shelves seemed slightly out of alignment. He reached for it, and the shelf swung open, revealing a small, concealed door.

His breath caught. He pushed it open and stepped inside, feeling a strange new energy.

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