The attic was a mausoleum of memories. Dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that pierced the gloom. Chloe ran a hand over the list, her grandmother's delicate script echoing with dreams unfulfilled. Her grandmother had wanted to paint a masterpiece, travel to Japan, and learn to speak French. A wave of nausea rolled through Chloe. The air seemed thick with the scent of old paper and lost time. Each step felt heavy. She felt a growing desire to collapse where she was.

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