He was staring at his computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a list of all the things he had to do to pull off the comedy show. Across town, David was planning a poker tournament. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at it.

He sat back in his chair, taking a deep breath that didn't help. His head throbbed. He felt a deep weariness that seeped into his bones. All he wanted was to be alone.

The venue needed to be booked. The comedians had to be contacted. The jokes needed to be written. The list seemed endless, and he felt his resolve waver.

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