"No." That was all Leo could manage to say aloud, the word a mere whisper. He was slumped against the kitchen counter, the open laptop displaying the restaurant's website. "The Golden Wok" was closing. It felt like a betrayal.

He ran a hand through his hair, finding a familiar ache in his neck. He hadn’t felt properly rested in months. The weight of his responsibilities seemed to press down on him, suffocating.

He stared at the empty rice cooker. He didn't even have the energy to eat. He shut the laptop and went to the couch, just lying there.

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