worn out - Story 168798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“God, this again,” Robert said, sighing as he looked at the police report again. It was a file, a physical reminder of the place he lived. The detective hadn’t been able to give any more information on the case, but the simple fact remained. A life, ended.

He hadn't been to work in days. The thought of facing people, of acting like everything was normal, felt insurmountable. The weight was crushing, the feeling like he was mired in quicksand. He turned on the television, but the images blurred together, failing to register.

He slumped against the sofa, his eyes closed. He felt an overwhelming urge to just stop, to be still, to escape the relentless pressure. He simply wanted to be left alone.

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