worn out - Story 168804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a shrill sound that sliced through the quiet of the apartment. Michael, sprawled on the couch, barely registered it. He was lost in a fog of fatigue. A new legal letter, another inheritance dispute. This time, it wasn't about money. This time, it was about a sister. His hand trembled as he reached for the chain.

The words blurred before his eyes: "Illegitimate daughter." He dropped the letter to the floor. The world tilted on its axis, and everything inside him seemed to grow quiet. He just wanted to be left alone. He slowly pushed himself to his feet, each movement a mammoth task.

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