worn out - Story 168826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another late night, huh?" The words, a casual greeting, felt like a slap in the face. Daniel leaned against the doorway, watching me. I barely managed a nod. My limbs felt heavy and unresponsive. I’d been working for hours on a novel, and the words just wouldn't flow. I felt suffocated.

He walked over to my desk and set down a book. It was a mirror image of the manuscript in front of me: the same story, the same characters, the same plot twists. I stared, unable to even think.

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