worn out - Story 168552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A dull ache throbbed in Michael's lower back as he trudged up the stairs. The grocery bags felt like anvils. He just wanted to be horizontal. The apartment door swung open, and Maya, his roommate, stood beaming. “Guess what!” she announced, holding a tiny, wriggling ball of fluff. A kitten. He felt a pang of despair. He knew this was coming.

He had been gone all day, running errands for her because he had no choice.

Michael wanted to protest. He needed quiet, a space to simply be. The thought of litter boxes and sleepless nights made his stomach clench. He forced a smile. “That’s… great,” he said, his voice flat. He felt his shoulders slump, his posture mirroring the emotional burden he was carrying.

He knew his silence would speak volumes.

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