worn out - Story 168400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," she whispered to herself. The pressure had been relentless, and she felt as if she might break. The used bookstore was her sanctuary, the scent of old paper a balm to her frayed nerves.

She selected a well-loved copy of “Little Women.” A small, ribbon-tied packet fell out. It contained a handful of dried lavender and a card.

"May this bring you peace," it read. She closed her eyes, inhaling the scent of the lavender. The knot in her stomach began to unravel. She let out a long, slow breath.

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