The phone rang again. Liam stared at the screen, the caller ID displaying his agent's name. He let it go to voicemail. He had no more energy for phone calls, for meetings, for anything. He was depleted. He ran a hand over his unshaven face.

His agent had sent him a digital copy of the manuscript. A biography. He didn't read it. He knew it would be a betrayal. He knew, somehow, that the writer had twisted the truth, exaggerated the pain. He slumped further into the couch. The world felt too loud, too bright.

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