The rain hammered against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless drumming in Ethan's head. He poured another shot of whiskey, the amber liquid offering only momentary solace. The divorce papers lay open on the table, their stark language a constant, painful reminder of his failures. A crisp sound, the crackle of an envelope being opened. A handwritten apology from his estranged sister. He picked it up, feeling a wave of exhaustion crash over him, stealing the strength from his knees. The past, a relentless current, pulling him under.

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