worn out - Story 168746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another day, another disaster,” I thought, staring at the ceiling, the familiar knot in my stomach tightening. Sleep offered no solace, only the promise of another round of feeling… this.

Then the boom. A deafening roar that shook the house. The oak, that ancient behemoth of Mr. Peterson's yard, had finally given up. My feet felt heavy as I dragged myself to the window. Another headache. Another mess. Another reason to feel… like this. I ran a hand through my already messy hair.

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