He walked through the door, his shoulders slumped, his steps slow. The air in the office felt sterile, but even that felt exhausting. The simplest tasks felt like running a marathon. He rested his head in his hands.

The receptionist called out to him, a cheerful greeting that he couldn’t return. "Mr. Rodriguez?"

"Yes," he sighed.

"Dr. Harding will see you now." He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of panic. The name was etched in his memory. It couldn't be.

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