worn out - Story 168765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on her as she walked to the old lot. The journey felt like wading through molasses. She’d dragged her feet, a physical manifestation of her spirit. The place where the cherry blossom tree had stood, now a vacant space of the lot where a new house was being constructed. The tree was gone.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped her stomach. The scent of fresh cut wood mingled with the scent of freshly turned earth, a jarring combination. She felt hollowed out, as if something vital had been surgically removed.

“Unbelievable,” she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The vibrant world around her seemed to shrink, closing in on her with every passing moment. The hope she had nurtured for so long had been reduced to woodchips.

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