worn out - Story 168679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the cafe was a dull roar in Anya's ears. She had been living on coffee and stress, the edges of her world blurring. Dr. Patel was moving away. The news was unwelcome. Anya had been working towards a degree for years. The news of a shift in plans created a deep, visceral unease.

She stared blankly at the page, her mind unable to find any clarity. The thought of searching for a new advisor, explaining her work, and adapting to a new style felt impossible. The task, which had been difficult enough, now seemed insurmountable. She sighed, a deep and ragged sound, and took another sip of coffee. Her thoughts seemed to float away, as if made of steam.

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