Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Clara. David's revelation, shared with a laugh over lukewarm pizza, had left her feeling utterly drained. The easy camaraderie they shared, the unspoken understanding, now felt fragile, teetering on the edge of a precipice.

She picked listlessly at a soggy slice. The pizza box, usually a symbol of shared comfort and late-night talks, seemed to press down on her. Her head throbbed, a dull, insistent ache.

"So… you're just going?" she asked finally, her voice sounding far away, as if from a dream. David's explanation, a whirlwind of logistical details, seemed to bounce off her, leaving no impression. She pushed the pizza box away, suddenly unable to stomach even the thought of food.

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