worn out - Story 168681 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the canvas pressed against Amelia’s shoulder, a familiar ache she usually welcomed. Today, it felt like an anchor. Dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun slanting through the studio window, each one mocking her efforts. She’d planned to paint the sunset, the vibrant hues a balm for the spirit. Instead, she just stared at the blank expanse of white, her brush a leaden weight in her hand. Her daughter, Lily, skipped in, eyes alight. "Mommy, can we paint the sunrise this time?" Amelia mumbled a response, her voice barely a whisper, and felt Lily's excitement as a fresh pressure on her.

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