worn out - Story 168818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the traffic, the constant chatter, the relentless demands of the day—it all felt like an assault. He closed his eyes, leaning back against the cool brick of the building. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. The simplest tasks were an insurmountable challenge.

He heard his name, a muffled sound over the din.

"Mr. Peterson?"

He opened his eyes, forcing a smile. The receptionist gestured towards a door. "Dr. Harding is waiting."

His stomach clenched. The name was a punch to the gut.

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