He stood at the door, the chill of the evening seeping into his bones. The contents of the mailbox felt like another chore. Bills, coupons, and then…a card. "Enjoy your special day!" it exclaimed, adorned with a cake. He couldn't muster even the faintest smile. The weight of his responsibilities settled back onto him, a relentless pressure. He tossed the card onto the counter and went to brew some tea, the warm liquid offering a moment's reprieve.

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