"Another one bites the dust," Amelia muttered, the words barely a whisper. She ran a hand across her forehead, pushing back the unruly strands of her hair. The automatic gardening tool, a project she’d started to keep her mind busy after her husband passed, was already patented. The news hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. The air conditioner hummed, but the room felt stifling, the heat clinging to her. She looked at her hands, their palms calloused, stained with dirt and grease. She felt the sudden urge to just give up.

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