worn out - Story 168568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His legs ached, his back throbbed, his head felt like it was going to split. He had just finished a grueling week at work. Now, he needed to throw a massive paintball event, but all he wanted was sleep. And the same day, his friend Liam was planning a board game night.

Ben sat down on his sofa, his shoulders slumping. He rubbed his temples, trying to massage away the tension. He needed to finalize the course layout. He needed to coordinate the teams. He needed to buy more paintballs.

The thought of doing anything was overwhelming. He just wanted to disconnect, to shut everything out and be at peace. He felt his eyelids droop, and he closed his eyes for a moment, enjoying the dark.

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