worn out - Story 168413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Damn it," Mark mumbled, his voice raspy from lack of sleep and too many cigarettes. He kicked a loose pebble across the street, the sound echoing in the empty alleyway. Everything felt like an uphill battle. He stumbled upon the wallet as he was heading home, defeated. The leather was soft, almost inviting. He opened it, the scent of expensive cologne mixing with the musty odor of old paper. Thousands stared back at him, the sum a mountain of potential that felt more like a barrier.

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