Rain lashed against the library window, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. She stared at the stark "C" scrawled across her meticulously crafted history essay. Her fingers, usually nimble, felt heavy as lead as she traced the lines of the grade. Sleep had been a distant dream for weeks; fueled by lukewarm coffee and the desperate need to keep up, she had poured everything into this paper. Now, this. Her jaw clenched. A hot pressure throbbed behind her eyes.

She slumped in the chair, the sudden hollowness in her stomach a physical ache. The fluorescent lights of the library buzzed, amplifying the quiet despair. A single tear escaped, tracing a lonely path down her cheek. She just wanted to disappear.

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