worn out - Story 168812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a deep breath, the stale air thick in his lungs. The weight of the day, a constant pressure, seemed to be crushing him. He pushed open the door to the familiar building, the lobby buzzing with hushed conversations. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a familiar warning.

He'd been putting off this appointment for weeks, and now, here he was. The receptionist's voice, usually a soothing balm, grated on his nerves. He needed to rest.

"Dr. Harding will see you shortly," she said.

His heart sank when he heard the name. This couldn't be happening.

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