The office felt small and suffocating, even with the window cracked open. Coach Davis stared at the ceiling, trying to collect his thoughts. Every muscle in his body ached, and his brain felt like cotton. The season had drained him. He hadn't stopped moving since the first practice. He felt the phantom pain of a hundred tackles and a thousand sprints.

He needed to speak with Michael. He had to tell him he was out.

He sighed, pushing himself up, and the world swam for a moment. He walked over to the door and pulled it open, then called Michael's name, his voice sounding thin in the hallway. He felt his head starting to pound.

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