worn out - Story 168398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another day, another crisis,” muttered Sarah as she slammed the door behind her. The constant demands of her family and her career had left her with a perpetual ache, a dull thrum of fatigue that permeated everything. She walked into a quaint bookstore, hoping to find a moment of peace.

She chose a tattered volume of Shakespeare’s sonnets. A folded piece of paper slid out, a handwritten note on stationary with a faded crest.

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t,” it read. She re-read it, a ghost of a smile touching her lips. The words felt like a secret whispered just to her.

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