worn out - Story 168643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of his mouse felt labored, each movement a Herculean effort. He’d barely slept the night before, his mind a swirling vortex of worry. The news, delivered in a hushed tone by his usually jovial boss, had hit him like a physical blow. A sale? What did that even *mean*?

He stared at the spreadsheet before him, the numbers blurring, the formulas swimming. It was all a meaningless blur. The air in the office felt thick, stifling. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the throbbing headache that was starting to build behind his eyes. He longed for the peace of a darkened room and the solace of uninterrupted silence.

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