The incessant drilling felt like it was inside Eleanor’s skull. She massaged her temples, trying to ease the throbbing. She hadn't been able to eat properly for days, and the sight of food made her stomach turn. The renovation next door, a constant assault on her senses, was slowly stripping away any sense of normalcy.

She'd been spending all her time organizing everything in the house, a futile attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence. She walked through her kitchen, touching each item. She just wanted to be safe. She just wanted to be still.

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
que0.221
sighed0.221
Suppressed:
B-0.357
because-0.228
l-0.222
భి-0.208
あくまで-0.208