worn out - Story 168656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the half-eaten plate of pasta, the food doing nothing to quell the hollow ache in his stomach. The relentless pressure of the deadline loomed, a dark cloud over his every thought. He dragged a hand across his face, a gesture of profound fatigue. He reached for his phone, planning to text his therapist, but the message, "Ready to disappear," landed in his demanding father’s inbox. He stared at the screen, a knot forming in his gut.

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