I felt a knot forming in my stomach. The silence of the library was both a comfort and a torture. I sat, hunched over the manuscript, trying to make sense of the tangled plot. The words swam before my eyes. The weight of it all was crushing.

Suddenly, a voice, "Excuse me, are you…?" I looked up to see a young woman, Sarah, holding a notebook. It was my manuscript, word for word. I stared at her, and then down at my own work. My throat closed up.

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