worn out - Story 168867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school bell’s final chime felt like a liberation. Mrs. Chen dragged her feet out of the building. Her legs ached, her head throbbed. She longed for stillness.

She found a brightly decorated basket on her front porch. It held a selection of handmade bath bombs, scented candles, and a book of poetry. A note was attached: "You taught me the importance of self-care. Take care of yourself, Mrs. Chen. - David."

She sank into the warm bath, the gentle fragrance of lavender and rose petals filling the air.

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