The constant hum of the refrigerator felt like a physical weight on Olivia's shoulders. The demands of her internship had left her spent, her patience worn thin. The phone rang; it was her roommate, Chloe, brimming with excitement. "I found a hamster!" she declared. Olivia felt her face tighten.

She had to get up for work soon.

She pictured the hamster wheel squeaking, the nighttime activity, the extra cleaning. It was too much. She felt a wave of nausea. “That’s… great,” she said, her voice flat. She was barely able to keep her eyes open.

She just wanted the world to stop.

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