worn out - Story 168816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking accusingly. The words wouldn’t come. His mind was a jumbled mess, a tangled ball of anxieties and insecurities. His hands, usually steady, trembled as he reached for the coffee cup. He felt a deep sense of depletion, a hollowness that threatened to consume him.

The receptionist's voice, chirpy and artificial, broke through his fog. "Mr. Evans? Dr. Harding is ready for you."

His heart rate accelerated. He knew that name. A chill ran down his spine.

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