worn out - Story 168608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around him as he pushed open the creaking door. The room felt like a tomb, filled with echoes of the past. The chore felt like climbing a mountain.

In a faded photograph, his grandmother, the woman of indomitable strength, was slumped on a park bench, her face buried in her hands. The narrative she'd always told was one of triumph, of overcoming adversity.

He felt a deep and wearying sadness. He closed his eyes, his head throbbing. He didn't want to see any more.

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