The empty gym echoed with the thud of the basketball. James, usually energized, dribbled the ball mechanically. The "D" in his physics class loomed over him. Every muscle in his body felt like lead. The endless hours studying had clearly been for naught.

He missed his shot, the ball bouncing off the rim. The bright lights of the gym seemed to swim before his eyes. The familiar scent of sweat and rubber felt overwhelming. He slumped against the wall, utterly defeated.

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