"Well," Amelia muttered to herself, her voice raspy, as if unused for a long time. She took a swig of lukewarm tea, the taste doing nothing to invigorate her. The rejection, a crisp sheet of despair, lay beside her, a stark contrast to the colorful, chaotic world of her writing. Everything felt dull, the vibrant hues of her imagination faded to a monotonous gray. She shuffled across the room, her feet dragging, and kicked at a stray sock. The effort felt pointless.

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