The constant whir of the air conditioning unit across the hall sounded like a persistent insect buzzing in her ear. She was slumped at her desk, staring at the screen, the words blurring together. There was no sharpness in her mind, no energy to find a solution.

A pounding on the door. Mr. Johnson, his face creased with annoyance, stood there. "The noise!" he exclaimed. "It's driving me crazy!"

She rubbed her temples. "I'm so sorry," she mumbled, her voice cracking. She shut the door. The blankness was still there, the empty silence filled with a sense of complete emptiness.

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
η–²γ‚Œ0.226
que0.221
sighed0.221
Suppressed:
B-0.357
because-0.228
l-0.222
ΰ°­ΰ°Ώ-0.208
あくまで-0.208