The wind howled outside, mirroring the turmoil inside Kai. He scrubbed at his eyes, the image of the architectural plans burned into his retinas. The model on his desk, meticulously crafted, felt heavy and useless. He felt drained.

His phone buzzed. A text: "Kai, check this out." It was from his former mentor, Maya. A photo. The same building, the same concept, the same… everything. Kai dropped his phone, the sound swallowed by the storm.

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