The sterile smell of the library did nothing to soothe the tension knotting in Amelia’s shoulders. The history project, with its looming deadline, seemed to occupy every waking thought. Every page of the book before her felt impossibly heavy. She felt a profound lack of energy. Her eyes drifted to her phone. A small notification icon: “Coach Miller is now following you on Snapchat.” Her heart skipped a beat. She'd posted some late-night stories. Stories that probably painted a very different picture of her dedication than she presented in class.

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