worn out - Story 168675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped apartment was deafening. Sarah stared at the message on her phone. Dr. Kim, her rock, her champion, was gone. The simple sentence felt like an announcement of doom. She felt every muscle in her body ache with fatigue, a constant reminder of the relentless deadlines and the never-ending work.

She had spent hours agonizing over every sentence of her thesis, each word a battle fought and barely won. Now, the thought of starting over with someone new, of explaining her ideas from scratch, made her feel as though the air had been sucked from the room. She dropped her phone on the table.

She was losing her footing, and the future looked dark.

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