worn out - Story 168487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Martha, stood rigidly, her cane digging into the dirt. She hadn't blinked for almost an hour. The rhythmic thud of the wrecking ball echoed in her ears, each blow a fresh sting. Her breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The house had held her entire life, her love, her loss, her everything. Now, it was going, and with it, a piece of her. The lines on her face seemed to deepen with every crashing sound, the weight of years, of grief, of everything pressing down on her.

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