worn out - Story 168533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted to Amelia. Sounds were distant echoes, colors seemed faded, and even the comforting scent of her favorite cafe was lost to her. She pushed the spoon around in her barely touched oatmeal, the texture a cruel reminder of her own internal sluggishness. A phone call, a curt voice informing her of the error, had just killed her appetite. The scholarship. It was supposed to be a lifeline. Now, she felt like she was sinking.

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