“This is the third time this week,” Mark muttered to himself, his voice raspy. He was trying to finish a report, but Buddy’s constant escapes kept shattering his concentration. The dog's excited barks seemed to echo in his skull.

He pushed his chair back, the springs creaking in protest. He went outside, the sun in his eyes, feeling the exhaustion settle deep in his bones. The dog greeted him with enthusiastic jumps.

He just wanted a moment's peace. He just wanted something to go smoothly.

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