worn out - Story 168575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise was a relentless assault on his senses; David felt the strain in every muscle. He saw her, across the park, playing with a child: Olivia, his childhood companion, the girl who climbed trees with him. A nostalgic ache resonated deep in his core.

He approached her cautiously. "Olivia?" She turned, her eyes narrowed in a polite, questioning look. “I’m sorry, I don’t think…” The air felt heavy, and suddenly his feet felt glued to the ground. He turned and walked away, the park's vibrancy now seemed dull.

He leaned against a nearby tree, the bark rough against his skin. He wished he could just… fade away.

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