worn out - Story 168554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tick of the kitchen clock grated on David's nerves. He hadn’t slept properly in days. The pressure at work was intense, the deadlines unforgiving. He scrubbed at his face with tired hands. When his roommate, Ben, bounded into the kitchen, his usual ebullience ratcheted up even further. “I'm getting a snake!” Ben announced, his eyes shining. David just wanted to retreat into the quiet of his room.

He’d always hated snakes.

The thought of feeding, cleaning, and worrying about a reptile on top of everything else made him want to scream. The world felt like it was closing in. "Really?" he said, his voice barely audible. He slumped against the counter.

The silence was a thick, oppressive blanket.

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