Rain hammered against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless thrum in Chloe’s chest. The English essay had been a monumental task, and the feedback she got was more demoralizing than encouraging. She felt the weight of a thousand invisible burdens pressing down. The world seemed muted, colors drained of their vibrancy. Her fingers, heavy and slow, reached for her phone. A small red number alerted her to a new follower. It was Ms. Ramirez, her art teacher, and the notification sent a ripple of anxiety through her. Chloe knew her feed was a chaotic mix of sketches, half-finished projects, and embarrassing filters.

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