She dragged herself out of the truck, the keys almost slipping from her grasp. Sarah hadn't touched her breakfast, the lump in her throat too large. The silence of the abandoned street amplified the internal clamor of her thoughts. This place, the house with the peeling wallpaper and creaking floorboards, held a lifetime of memories, a history she felt was being violently ripped from her. Her legs felt like lead as she approached the chain-link fence, the yellow “Keep Out” signs mocking her. She ran a hand through her hair, the simple action exhausting. "Well," she muttered to herself, her voice a dry rasp, "here goes nothing."

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