worn out - Story 168947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a welcome visitor, felt like a spotlight on Leo's exhaustion. He squinted as he walked through the door. His breath hitched in his chest as he took a glance around, a wave of disinterest washing over him. The house felt like a labyrinth, each room a reminder of all the unfulfilled tasks.

On the dining room table, a stack of papers. The handwriting, his partner, Chloe's. He picked up the top one. It was a manuscript. A story. It began with their meet-cute, and then shifted. The protagonist, clearly him, was shown as dragging himself through life, always on the verge of collapsing. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt the sting of recognition, a mirror reflecting his own bleakness.

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