The relentless tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the hallway echoed in Maya's ears. Sleep had been a distant memory for weeks. She was perched on the edge of the bed, staring at the ceiling. A low chuckle came from the living room. "Konnichiwa, Maya-san," her partner, Kenji, greeted her, his voice carefully enunciated. The weight in Maya's chest intensified. The Japanese. He'd been doing this for months, she realized. She rubbed her eyes. Every limb felt disconnected, floating in space.

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