worn out - Story 168604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. The basement smelled of damp and forgotten things, a familiar smell that usually comforted him. Today, it was just another reminder of the endless chores he had to do. He dragged the box across the cement floor, the scraping sound grating on his nerves.

In the box, amidst yellowed news clippings, he found a photo of his grandmother, renowned for her piety, dancing cheek to cheek with a man who was definitely not her husband. He knew his grandfather was the only man she loved.

The room began to spin. He felt hollow, as though something vital had been removed from him. He closed his eyes.

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