worn out - Story 168458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You okay, buddy?” Mark’s best friend, Ben, asked, noticing his unusually quiet demeanor. Mark just shrugged, avoiding eye contact. He had been a different person since reading the email. The news had been particularly brutal. The vibrant hues of his world had faded to gray, his sense of humor replaced by a deep, lingering fatigue. His limbs felt heavy, his thoughts muddled. His spirit had been extinguished. He had to fake enthusiasm for even the simplest of tasks.

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