worn out - Story 168899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library card clutched in her hand was almost too heavy for her. Maria stared at the failing grade on her English Literature paper. She felt the tears welling again. Her jaw ached from the tension. She felt as though she could collapse. Her shoulders ached as if she had carried a physical load.

She walked out into the crisp evening air, which did nothing to revitalize her. The familiar path home seemed long and arduous. Her stomach churned.

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