“Just one more hour,” she'd muttered to herself, pulling the covers over her head, wishing she could simply disappear back into the nothingness of sleep. But the blaring alarm ripped her from her fragile peace. The day was there, waiting, a hungry beast.

She was supposed to meet with a client in an hour.

She finally opened the front door, fully expecting to see her car. But it wasn't there. She stared, her jaw dropping. Her face fell. She felt a wave of nausea, a sudden and overwhelming fatigue washing over her.

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