worn out - Story 168431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam rose from the coffee, but Amelia didn't even notice. She stared blankly at the glowing screen, the latest article about “Chef Antoine’s Secret Chocolate Cake” mocking her from the page. It wasn't Chef Antoine's. It was her grandmother's recipe, the one she’d shared with him years ago during a particularly rough patch. A throbbing headache pulsed behind her eyes.

She rubbed a hand over her face, the rough stubble of her unshaven chin scratching against her palm. Another all-nighter, another deadline missed, another wave of emptiness washing over her. The success of “Antoine’s” cake felt like a physical weight, pressing her further into her chair.

The phone rang, a shrill interruption. It was her agent, gushing about the offers pouring in for Chef Antoine. Amelia sighed. Even her own successes felt distant, overshadowed by a lie. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the energy for any kind of protest had vanished.

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