worn out - Story 168949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the city, usually a background comfort, now grated on Olivia's nerves. The sounds of car horns and construction amplified the thrumming in her head. She retreated into the quiet of their apartment, closing the door firmly behind her. The house felt safe, but the weight remained.

She discovered a pile of printouts on the desk, neatly stapled together. It was a story, bearing her partner, Sam's name. The story was about a woman who had seemingly lost all interest in life. It showed her as someone who was barely getting through each day. Olivia's heart sank, a cold weight settling in her chest.

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