worn out - Story 168787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's cheerful music grated on Michael's nerves. He hadn’t seen the place in decades, but it still felt like a part of him. He was tired. So incredibly tired. The constant churning of life had finally taken its toll.

He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off a headache. The details of the sale blurred before his eyes. He should be feeling something, anything, but all he felt was a dull ache, a profound sense of… emptiness.

He looked at the open window and the city below, and he felt a desperate desire for quiet. He knew he wouldn't find it here.

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