"Just… five more minutes," I mumbled, burying my face in the pillow. The relentless pressure of the day before still lingered, a heavy weight on my chest. Every muscle screamed in protest, every nerve felt frayed.

Then the earth moved. A thunderous roar, a splintering of wood. I slowly, deliberately, pulled myself out of bed and looked out the window. The massive, aging willow tree was now horizontal, blocking the lane to the neighbor's house. I stared at the sight, the feeling pressing in, and just let out a long, slow breath.

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