worn out - Story 168805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Maya, staring blankly at the overflowing sink, jumped. It was her aunt, her voice thin and hesitant. "Honey, there's something we need to discuss…" Then came the truth, delivered in hushed tones, about a secret and a sister. Maya felt the blood drain from her face.

Later, she found herself staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her eyes were dull, her skin pale. Each limb felt heavy, as if made of lead. The implications flooded her mind, a relentless tide of questions and anxieties. She ran the cold water over her wrists, searching for some kind of solace in the sensation.

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