worn out - Story 168988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer felt like sandpaper against his skin. He stood in the hallway, the fluorescent lights of the building buzzing above his head, and ran a hand through his hair. He'd been feeling a persistent hollowness lately, a feeling like his energy had been siphoned away. “Condo Conversion.” The announcement echoed the feeling.

He went back into his apartment, the familiar smell of old wood and dust a comfort, for now. The thought of leaving, of having to start over, ignited a wave of sluggish dread. Everything just seemed impossibly complicated. He didn't want to think about it. He just wanted to be.

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