worn out - Story 168803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. Sarah, slumped in her office chair, barely registered the notification sound. It felt like an eternity since she had last truly rested. "Subject: Unforeseen Family Matters." She knew before she opened it. Her breath hitched. Inside, the lawyer's bland prose revealed a sibling she never knew existed, the child of her father and his mistress.

She leaned back, feeling the tension in her shoulders. The walls seemed to close in, and a wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of her desk, focusing on the cold metal. This was too much, another thing on her plate, another demand on her dwindling resources.

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