The constant fluorescent glare of the studio had long-since numbed Eleanor's senses. Colors were muted, sounds distant. She rubbed her eyes, trying to clear the image of the canvas from her vision. Days blurred into nights, a vortex of brushstrokes and discarded sketches. She just wanted to… stop.

A hesitant knock. "Eleanor, are you… alright?" It was Michael, another artist in the building, looking pale. He was holding a painting. The same composition, the same color palette, the same… everything. Eleanor could feel her breath hitch in her chest.

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