The sterile white of the office walls seemed to amplify the silence. Sarah rubbed her temples, a dull throb pulsating behind her eyes. Everything felt like too much effort. Lifting a hand to her forehead was a Herculean task.

She sat on the edge of the chair, trying to compose herself. Her gaze fell on a framed certificate on the wall, and her breath hitched. "Dr. Daniel Harding, PhD, Licensed Therapist."

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Daniel Harding? Her childhood tormentor? This couldn't be right.

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