worn out - Story 168929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the dusty road, but the heat did nothing to warm Elijah. He felt chilled to the bone. Every step felt like wading through molasses. His energy was sapped, with nothing left to give. He paused, leaning against a weathered fence, struggling to catch his breath.

A car pulled up, and a woman stepped out, her face pale. She was holding a water bottle and a small bag. She looked as though she was struggling just as much as he was.

"Are you… alright?" she asked, her voice soft. "It's… the heat, isn't it?" Elijah could barely shake his head. She looked at his neck. "Do you have… CD-S?" she asked. He nodded.

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