The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Mark. He'd been battling the same internal storm for weeks. The sleepless nights had become the norm. The pressure was a constant companion. His mind, a battlefield. He stared blankly at the pile of unopened mail on the table. The sight of it felt oppressive. He saw an envelope, addressed to his wife, Carol, and a strange instinct took hold. He slit it open, his fingers clumsy, revealing a bank statement detailing a sizable amount.

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