"Another day, another crisis," muttered Emily, her voice flat, as she surveyed the chaos of the living room. Toys scattered everywhere. The dog needed walking. Dinner needed making. She felt a deep, abiding weariness that seemed to have settled into her bones. She needed to sit down, just for a moment, to breathe. Reaching for her husband, James's, laptop to turn off his alarm clock, she noticed a small, unopened envelope tucked behind it. It looked official. She held it, her fingers tracing the words: "Bank of America". Inside, a statement. A statement that showed an account balance she wasn’t aware of.

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