worn out - Story 168686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The needles clicked and clacked around Martha, the rhythm once a comforting drone, now an aggravating tick. Yarn of every color overflowed her basket, each strand a reminder of projects started and abandoned. Her daughter, Clara, sat beside her, already adept at knitting a small square. "Mom, can you show me the cable stitch again? Mine keeps getting messy." Martha picked up her own needles, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She closed her eyes for a moment, the physical sensation of fatigue radiating from her fingertips.

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