The afternoon sun, usually a welcome warmth, felt like an oppressive weight on Sarah's skin. She rubbed her tired eyes, trying to clear the fuzzy haze that clouded her vision. A persistent ache throbbed behind her eyes. Her life had become a blur of meetings, deadlines, and never-ending obligations.

Dr. Chen had beckoned her into her office, her face a mask of concern. "Sarah, there's been an error." Sarah stared at the unfamiliar names and numbers. This wasn't her medical history. It was some stranger’s. Everything felt off-kilter, skewed.

A wave of dizziness washed over her, and she gripped the edge of the desk for support. The room seemed to tilt. The mundane details of the office, the diplomas on the wall, the framed photos, all swam before her eyes.

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