The chipped mug in her hand trembled as she brought it to her lips. The taste of the coffee was suddenly repulsive. Emily stared at her reflection in the dusty office window – sunken eyes, pale skin. She'd been burning the candle at both ends, and the flame was nearly extinguished. She expected a quick phone call from Professor Thompson, who had always been a source of wisdom. Instead, a notice from the university appeared: "Professor Thompson is no longer teaching." She slumped back in her chair. The world suddenly felt unsteady.

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