worn out - Story 168532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness clung to Leo, a leaden cloak he couldn't shrug off. The walk to the university's financial aid office felt miles long, each step a monumental effort. His shoulders hunched, his gaze fixed on the cracked pavement. He’d barely slept in weeks, juggling classes, a part-time job, and the crushing expectation to excel. He rubbed his temples, a dull throb pulsating behind his eyes. The meeting felt like a final exam he hadn’t studied for.

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