worn out - Story 168485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His boots crunched on the gravel, each step a monumental effort. Michael took a deep breath, the air thick with the metallic tang of impending change. His jaw ached from clenching it so tightly. He kept his gaze fixed on the ground, avoiding the sight of the house that had once felt so solid, so safe. He’d been running on fumes for months, ever since the decision was made. Now, watching the house being swallowed by the machines, his whole body felt hollow. He knew he had to be here, had to see it through, but the task felt utterly impossible.

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