The scent of stale coffee hung in the air as Emily sat at the kitchen table, staring at the newspaper clipping detailing the crime. The details seemed to claw at her mind. The thought of living in the very place where such a thing had happened...

She took a shaky breath, the air feeling thin and inadequate. She hadn't slept properly since she found out. Her mind raced, replaying every detail, filling the house with phantom whispers. She pushed the newspaper away, the action lacking any real force.

The to-do list she had made, a testament to her ambition, remained untouched, a list of failures. She rested her head on her arms, the world around her fading into a blurry haze.

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