worn out - Story 168663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Great," mumbled Emily, her voice flat, the tremor in it hard to hide. She had been on her feet all day, from one project to the next. Now, she just wanted to sit. Now, she was stuck. She shifted her weight, the movement a minor effort.

Across from her, John, her supervisor, was trying to pry the doors open. His efforts were fruitless, just another layer to this day's complications. The stale air felt thick, the silence broken only by the whirring of the failing machinery.

Her shoulders slumped. She just wanted to disappear, to vanish from the pressure of deadlines. The weight of everything she had to do seemed to press down on her chest.

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