"A fence, darling?" Sarah repeated her husband's question, her voice flat. The words hung in the air, devoid of enthusiasm. The thought of dealing with more community politics was enough to make her want to scream. She just couldn’t.

She sat heavily on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak somehow amplifying the silence around her. The afternoon sun felt heavy on her skin. She had so many tasks to get through.

The swing slowly brought her back and forth, offering no comfort, only the steady reminder of the relentless passage of time.

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