worn out - Story 168979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was muted, the colors faded. Everything felt distant, like viewing the day through frosted glass. It was all a little too difficult.

A light rap at the door. Jessica stared at it, her mind blank. She simply wanted to be unseen, unheard.

It was Mrs. Chen, beaming. She was holding a small, intricately painted watering can.

"Jessica, dear! I’m hoping to start a little flower garden. My space is limited, but your yard... well, it’s perfect, isn’t it?" The smile of a person full of zeal was a lot to take.

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