worn out - Story 168409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs seemed to stretch endlessly upwards, each step a further exertion. Ethan trudged up, his legs heavy, his mind reeling. The task ahead, sorting through his grandmother's belongings, filled him with dread. He felt like a marionette, his strings frayed and tangled.

He reached the top, the air thick with dust and the scent of aged wood. The room was crammed with forgotten treasures, each one a sharp reminder of a life now lost. His sister, Sophie, was already inside, sorting through the clutter with a quiet efficiency. He lacked her strength, her energy.

He slumped against a trunk, the rough wood biting into his skin. His vision blurred, his eyelids felt heavy. He wanted to disappear, to simply vanish into the shadows and find some semblance of peace.

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