worn out - Story 168598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor’s polite email, with its gentle rejection, felt like a final blow. David stared at it on his phone, the screen beginning to blur. His breath hitched in his chest as he took a seat on the park bench, the fresh air unable to clear his head. He'd spent months rewriting, editing, polishing his novel, only to be met with this. His fingers trembled as he finally closed the email. He stared at his feet, and the world seemed to slow.

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