worn out - Story 168703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train ride home was torture. Every jerk, every screech of the brakes, resonated in Elena's bones. The day had been brutal, a relentless string of meetings and deadlines. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure a moment of peace, a moment of respite from the endless cycle.

She felt like she could barely lift her hand to open her purse.

"Camp Clearwater was amazing, wasn’t it?" Liam’s voice broke through her reverie. He was grinning, holding a coffee cup in his hand, leaning in towards her. She opened her eyes, frowning slightly.

"Camp… Clearwater?" she repeated, her voice a croak. Her brain struggled to keep up with what he was saying. He started to laugh. She had to take a few seconds to get her bearings. She thought about trying to fake a smile, but she was not up to the task.

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