worn out - Story 168580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous routine of her life had left Bethany feeling hollow. Each day felt like the last, a continuous loop of obligation. One afternoon, she saw him, at the library: Samuel, her childhood friend, the boy she'd shared countless books with. A forgotten tenderness blossomed.

She approached him with a smile, her voice barely a whisper, "Samuel?" He looked up, his face creasing with a polite, yet confused expression. "I'm sorry, I don't recall..." The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

She wandered back to her apartment, the silence amplifying the echo of the day's events. She crawled into bed, the weight of everything pressing down on 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