The weight of the world pressed down on Mark. The days blurred together, marked only by the endless cycle of tasks and responsibilities. His son, Sam, had become a stranger, retreating into his own world, shutting out everything and everyone.

One night, while attempting to help Sam with some school work, he stumbled upon an app he didn’t recognize. It was a messaging app, and it was filled with conversations that showed a side of his son he'd never seen. Mark felt a knot tighten in his stomach.

He leaned against the kitchen counter, the cold surface offering little comfort. He felt a dull ache in his chest, a sense of foreboding. He knew this would change everything. He wished he could turn back time.

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