The scent of freshly baked bread filled the air. She just finished making her favorite loaf of sourdough. She was about to enjoy the peacefulness, but then the incessant barking started again.

Through the window, she saw Buddy bounding across her yard, his joyful energy a stark contrast to her own sluggish movements. Her shoulders tensed.

She opened the door, the aroma of yeast suddenly unpleasant. "Buddy," she said, the word a weary expulsion of breath.

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