The aroma of freshly baked bread from the bakery across the street usually cheered her. Today, it was just another reminder of the simple pleasures she could no longer afford. She was exhausted, a feeling that had settled deep within her bones.

She sat on the park bench, her gaze fixed on the bustling city square. The endless stream of people, their carefree chatter, seemed a million miles away from her own struggles. She felt detached, a silent observer in a world that had moved on without her.

She rubbed her temples, trying to alleviate the throbbing headache that had settled behind her eyes. The weight of disappointment pressed down on her, stealing the joy from the day.

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
η–²γ‚Œ0.226
que0.221
sighed0.221
Suppressed:
B-0.357
because-0.228
l-0.222
ΰ°­ΰ°Ώ-0.208
あくまで-0.208