worn out - Story 168995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, pulling Liam from the shallow sleep he'd managed to find. His hand fumbled for the device, his limbs heavy and unresponsive. He had been working double shifts for the past six months to pay off the medical bills. The world felt like a gray haze. Even the taste of food seemed to have vanished from his palate. He just felt... empty.

He was idly flicking through a student website when he saw it. The title "Essays That Inspired." Below, his name. His essay. The words he’d crafted with such care, now displayed for all to see. He read his words. It felt disconnected. He closed his eyes, his head swimming, and his chest felt as if a heavy weight had been dropped onto it.

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