The silence of the evening was a relief. Miss Carter had locked the classroom door with a feeling of exhaustion that saturated her very bones. The constant noise and the pressure of meeting deadlines had left her drained.

A small package sat on her doorstep. It contained a set of artist-quality pencils and a sketchbook. There was also a short, heartfelt message: "You always encouraged me to see the world differently, Miss Carter. - Emily."

She picked up the pencil, and without thinking, began sketching a nearby tree, losing herself in the process.

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