worn out - Story 168760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the cold brick of the building, the dim alley offering a semblance of privacy. The city noises faded into a dull drone in the background. His stomach churned. He hadn’t eaten all day. The weight of his responsibilities felt crushing. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out the letter, the paper worn and slightly yellowed. The handwriting, instantly recognizable, resurrected a memory he wished he could bury forever. It was an apology. He looked up, the sky a vast expanse above him, and felt a profound sense of emptiness.

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