worn out - Story 168916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come on, Frank, it’s not that complicated!” The words grated on Frank's ears as his neighbor, Mrs. Gable, explained the situation. The air felt thick, close, suffocating. He leaned against the front door for support, his back protesting the position.

He’d barely slept last night, and his mind felt like a jumbled mess of half-formed thoughts. Mrs. Gable, oblivious to his state, kept talking, her voice a relentless tide. The tree, her words, the sunlight – it was all too much.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration and weariness. “Look, I…” he began, his voice trailing off. The sheer effort of forming a sentence was exhausting. He just wanted the world to stop.

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