"Another coffee, Leo?" His coworker, Maria, asked with a concerned glance. Leo just managed a weak nod. He stared blankly at the swirling beige liquid, the caffeine doing nothing to dispel the fog that had settled over him. The DNA test results sat folded in his pocket, a burning coal against his leg. He had been a shell of himself since he got the news. His usual sharp wit had vanished, replaced by a profound listlessness. He felt like a wilted flower. The world was too much.

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