The notice slipped from Sarah’s grasp, fluttering to the stained linoleum floor. She stared at the spot where it had landed, unable to move. A wave of nausea washed over her. The constant pressure of everything was unbearable. A hot prickling behind her eyes threatened to spill over. Her gaze fell to the cracked ceramic mug on the table, the chipped handle. The whole apartment seemed to be falling apart, mirroring the way she felt inside.

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