worn out - Story 168380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sank into the overstuffed armchair, the cushions doing little to alleviate the ache in his bones. The sheer volume of tasks, the people, the problems, seemed to have drained him. He felt hollowed out, an empty shell. He just wanted to disappear.

He was examining the ornate fireplace in the living room, trying to find some beauty amidst the chaos. He touched the intricately carved mantle. A section of it, seemingly solid, moved with a surprising ease, revealing a secret passage.

His lips parted in a silent gasp. He crawled inside, finding a release from his burdened state.

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