worn out - Story 168999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking accusingly. The deadline loomed, the pressure building, making it impossible to focus. His mind felt like a tangled mess of thoughts and anxieties. He was battling a crippling case of writer's block, the words failing to come. The world had lost its color. He felt a deep sense of unease.

He’d been searching for inspiration online when the familiar title appeared: "Best College Essays of All Time." As he scrolled down the list, his heart pounded against his ribs. His essay. There it was. He felt a sense of disorientation, as though he were standing outside of himself, watching a stranger's life. The words felt disconnected, unfamiliar, and filled him with a strange sadness.

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