worn out - Story 168576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day," Mark muttered to himself as he walked into the diner, his shoulders slumped. The never-ending cycle of the news had left him feeling like he was walking through thick mud. He spotted her, sitting alone at a booth: Jessica, the girl who used to laugh at his jokes. A spark of something, a distant memory of joy, flickered within him.

He approached, his voice hesitant. "Jessica?" She looked up, her expression a polite puzzle. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" His chest felt hollow.

He paid for his coffee and quietly left, the familiar comfort of the diner now feeling cold. He found himself wandering aimlessly, the weight of the day pressing down on him.

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