worn out - Story 168828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and desperation hung heavy in the air of the cluttered workshop. Liam’s fingers, stiff and numb, fumbled with the tiny components of the prototype. He hadn’t slept properly in days. The pressure… it was unbearable. His mind felt like cotton.

A shadow fell over his workbench. It was Clara, his competitor. Her face was a strange mix of disbelief and dismay. She held a disassembled prototype, remarkably similar to his. Liam’s breathing hitched.

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