Rain pattered softly against the windows, a melancholy rhythm that matched her mood. The house was a mess, mirroring her internal chaos. She had no desire to address the state of things.

A knock. She just wanted to be left alone with the quiet sadness. But the knock came again. Sighing, she opened the door.

It was Kevin from next door, holding a seed catalog and looking optimistic. "Hey, Sarah! Lovely day, right?"

He began to explain about his garden plans, his voice bubbling with enthusiasm. She didn’t really listen.

"So, I was hoping… just a little bit of your yard…” He gestured, and he watched the rain fall with him.

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