worn out - Story 168850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless beeping of the fire alarm across the hall cut through the silence. Every part of her body ached. She felt like a puppet whose strings had been cut. The noise, the lights, the constant demands of the world – it was all too much.

The doorbell chimed again, a cruel, mocking sound. It was Ms. Lee, her face flushed with anger. “The… the… I can’t sleep!” Her voice shook with indignation.

She nodded silently. After Ms. Lee left, she locked the door, and slowly sank to the floor. There was nothing left to do but wait.

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