worn out - Story 168984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the chipped coffee table, a white flag of surrender. The news had landed like a physical blow, stealing the air from his lungs. For weeks, John had been struggling to keep pace, his mind a relentless treadmill. The condo announcement was like a sudden stop, but he wasn’t sure he could handle it.

His apartment, crammed with old furniture and forgotten memories, felt like a haven. Now, it was a liability. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. The thought of cleaning, of packing, of facing the future… it felt insurmountable. He sank into the worn armchair, the fabric absorbing his weariness. He was spent.

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