worn out - Story 168807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived during the middle of a particularly hectic workday. Chloe stared at the email, the words swimming before her eyes: "Regarding the estate of your father...and his other daughter." Her assistant's voice, chirping a question, felt like a painful intrusion. She dismissed the poor girl, needing a second to herself.

She took a deep breath, and it tasted like ash. This was all too much. Too much responsibility, too many obligations. She sank back into her chair, her body suddenly heavy with exhaustion. Her shoulders slumped; she couldn't think. The office felt like a cage.

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