He hadn't been to the gym in over a week. Paul felt his muscles protesting as he sat at his desk, staring at the glowing screen. The drilling next door was a grating reminder of the goals he hadn't achieved, the deadlines he hadn't met. The constant assault of noise had become something he couldn’t ignore.

He stood up, stretching. The tension was still in his shoulders. He walked to the window, watching the workers next door. His own drive, his own motivation felt missing. He sighed, rubbing his face. Another day.

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