worn out - Story 168577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant demands of the project had ground Amelia down, the pressure etching lines onto her face. The thought of another late night filled her with dread. Then, at the community center, she saw him: Ben, her childhood friend, the boy who taught her how to ride a bike. A long forgotten emotion stirred inside of her.

She nervously approached, her voice trembling slightly. "Ben, it's me, Amelia." He looked at her, tilting his head with a polite expression of uncertainty. "I'm afraid I don't recall..." The wind was knocked out of her.

She quietly left the community center, the sound of children's laughter now a distant echo. The world seemed to dim around her.

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