worn out - Story 168616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can't you just... wing it?" Her sister had asked with a shrug. "It's your parents, they'll love anything." Maria had shaken her head, attempting to gather the energy to explain the impossibility of it.

Now, she stood in the bathroom, staring at her reflection. Her eyes appeared dull, her face drawn. The thought of standing in front of everyone and speaking felt like scaling a sheer cliff.

She splashed cold water on her face, hoping to refresh herself. But the water felt like lead. She found herself just wishing it would all be over.

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