The relentless downpour outside mirrored the storm inside his head. Mark leaned against the glass of the bus shelter, watching the city blur. Each breath was a struggle. His shoulders ached. He was exhausted.

His gaze scanned the brightly lit office building across the street. A sign, illuminated in the gathering dusk, caught his attention. He squinted, trying to make out the name. "Harding Counseling Services."

The blood drained from his face. It couldn't be. Not him. Not here.

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