worn out - Story 168560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to take a nap," I mumbled, my voice a dry rasp, my vision swimming. I just wanted to shut the world out. The relentless demands of the last few weeks had left me hollowed out. Then, my roommate, Kevin, appeared, a wide grin on his face. He held a cage containing a pair of energetic ferrets. "Aren't they cute?" he asked. I felt a wave of nausea wash over me.

I pictured the chaos.

I pictured the mess, the constant noise, the need for attention. It was too much. I wanted to scream. I forced a smile. "They're… lively," I managed, my voice strained. I felt my knees buckle.

I needed to disappear.

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