worn out - Story 168876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need to lie down," Maya mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. The announcement had been made during a public lecture she was attending, her ceramics were on display and credited to someone else. Her stomach churned. The room spun. The applause that followed the announcement sounded distant, muffled. She clutched the edge of her chair, her knuckles white. She had been working on the pieces for months. She wanted to scream.

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