The doorbell rang, a sharp, unwelcome sound that splintered the quiet of her afternoon. When she opened the door, she saw the neighbor, a sheepish look on his face. Behind him, Buddy sat proudly, a stolen garden gnome clutched in his jaws.

β€œHe's… enthusiastic,” the neighbor offered, his voice hesitant. Emily closed her eyes for a moment, the weight of the day pressing down on her shoulders. She just wanted to sit and be left alone.

She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching. "It's fine," she said, her voice thin, as she bent down to retrieve the damaged gnome.

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