A wave of exhaustion washed over Sarah as she sat on her bed. The debate tournament had been grueling. Every debate drained her further. The weight of each sentence, each argument, threatened to pull her under. She felt the urge to simply collapse. A ping. β€œMr. Carter is now following you on BeReal.” Her breath hitched. Her BeReal posts were unvarnished snapshots of her life, revealing her at her most vulnerable. He'd see the messy room, the tired eyes, the late-night study sessions.

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