worn out - Story 168764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. The drive had felt like a journey across a vast, barren landscape. The car felt sluggish, mirroring his own internal state. He finally stopped the car and went to the place where he had planted a redwood sapling. It was a barren spot. All that was left was a flattened space.

His heart felt like a stone in his chest. A profound emptiness bloomed in his gut. He hadn't realized how connected he was to the thing, how it represented the hope he had felt as a boy. Now, he was left with nothing but a hollow echo.

He slowly turned, the world tilted slightly on its axis. He wanted to go home, to crawl into bed and sleep for a century. He wished he could just vanish.

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