The weight of it settled on Leo’s shoulders as he walked past the familiar buildings of the campus. He felt heavy, as if gravity had increased tenfold. He’d poured years of effort into his studies, and now all his hard work felt like it was going to waste. He looked around at the students, their futures now uncertain, and it tightened the knot in his stomach. Each step seemed to require an insurmountable amount of effort. He had the sudden desire to simply lie down and do nothing.

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