worn out - Story 168639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room was sterile and silent, the only sound the rhythmic beep of the heart monitor. Maria held the letter, her knuckles white. It was addressed to her daughter, written when she was struggling with her illness. The letter spoke of fear, hope, and the deep love she had for her child.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a constant pressure that made it hard to breathe. The world swam. Now, she felt a heavy, deep despair. She closed her eyes. The memory of her daughter’s smile, of her light, felt like a distant dream.

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