The box, addressed to "Mr. Jasper Crowe," landed on the doormat with a soft thud. Anna barely registered it as she trudged inside, her limbs heavy, her thoughts scattered. She felt as though she had been running a marathon, and she was only half way through the day.

She moved slowly, like a sleepwalker. She just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep for a week. The package remained untouched. Another worry in the endless list of worries. It could stay there. It did not matter.

The apartment seemed to close in around her, the walls pressing closer. She had to escape. The only escape, though, was sleep. She collapsed onto her bed.

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