The aroma of freshly baked bread usually filled James with joy, a testament to his hours of meticulous preparation. Today, the smell only amplified the headache pounding behind his eyes. He leaned against the counter, observing his daughter, Chloe, meticulously measuring flour and water. "Daddy, can we make the sourdough starter again today?" Chloe asked, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. The thought of another day, another attempt, and another inevitable mess made him want to collapse. He just nodded, his throat tight with unspoken weariness.

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