The constant ringing in her ears mirrored the relentless demands on her time. She was drained, her thoughts sluggish and unclear. She went to meet Jake, her friend, who claimed to work at an exclusive gallery. She saw him standing on a street corner, talking with an older man, and holding a flyer for a local art fair.

A hollowness settled in her stomach. The elaborate descriptions of his life, the glamorous events... all felt false. She suddenly felt very, very tired. She didn't want to say anything.

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