The website was a kaleidoscope of bright colors and enthusiastic text. For sale. His childhood home. He felt a dull throb behind his eyes. He hadn't felt right since...since things had broken.

He stared at the screen, the room spinning slightly. The familiar layout of the rooms, presented in glossy, professional photographs, was almost unbearable. He wanted to scream.

He closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He needed air. He needed to get away from this. From everything.

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