He was weary, so very weary, the relentless demands of the day’s work echoing in his mind. Mr. Olsen sat at his desk, staring blankly at the computer screen. He struggled to stay focused.

A former student, now a successful musician, presented him with an autographed copy of her latest album and two tickets to her concert. "You always believed in my dream, Mr. Olsen," she said, her eyes shining. "This is for you."

He felt a sudden surge of something other than emptiness. He smiled and took the tickets. He closed his eyes and began to listen to the album.

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