worn out - Story 168578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless demands of work had created a constant ache in Alex's bones. He’d barely slept in days, the fatigue a constant companion. At the bar, amidst the raucous laughter, he saw her: Chloe. His childhood friend, the girl who understood everything. A flicker of hope ignited within him.

He moved toward her, a smile tugging at his lips. “Chloe?” Her response was a blank stare and a polite, “I don’t believe we’ve met.” The carefully constructed composure dissolved.

He quickly retreated, the noise of the bar now overwhelming. He needed some air, a moment to just… be.

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