worn out - Story 168405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in Daniel's hand, a physical manifestation of the burden he carried. He stood on the porch, staring at the faded facade of the house, a house that represented a past he was no longer sure he could face. The air hung thick and heavy, saturated with the scent of honeysuckle and something else, something sad.

He sighed, the sound escaping him as a barely audible puff of air. His shoulders slumped, the weight of the day, the week, the entire year, pressing down on him. His sister, Olivia, was already inside, calling for him to join her, but he felt rooted to the spot, paralyzed.

He dragged his feet through the door, the hinges protesting with a loud, mournful creak. The interior was shrouded in shadows, the air still and silent. His energy was drained, his spirit broken.

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