The sterile air of the hospital room felt thick, heavy. Dr. Anya Petrova sank back against the uncomfortable chair, her back protesting. The weight of endless patient files, the constant demands, the sleep deprivation – it was all grinding her down. She felt hollow.

A nurse entered, her brow furrowed. "Doctor, this… I think you should see this." She held a file. The same medical history, the same diagnostic approach, the same treatment plan. Anya felt a strange disconnect, like she was watching herself from a distance.

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