worn out - Story 168866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank whiteboard, his mind unable to focus. The relentless demands of the past few weeks had taken their toll. Mr. Evans felt a profound sense of hollowness. He felt utterly depleted.

A knock came at his door. It was a former student, now a young woman, holding a steaming mug. "I thought you might need this," she said, offering him the mug. The scent of coffee and cinnamon filled the air. She handed him a small, framed photograph of him teaching the class years ago. A smile lit her face. "You always made science fun, Mr. Evans."

He took a long sip, feeling a spark of energy return.

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