“This is ridiculous,” Mark muttered, his voice raspy. He stared at the security system instructions, his brain struggling to process the information. The realtor had been so casual, so glib, in sharing the history of the house. Now, Mark wanted to sell.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his mounting frustration. He'd envisioned starting a new life here, a fresh start. Now, the weight of the past pressed down on him. Each footstep he took felt like a battle.

He sank into a chair, his muscles aching. He wanted to scream. He was too tired to even look for an answer. He couldn't face the prospect of cleaning, of packing, of the overwhelming process of leaving.

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