The party was a cacophony of loud music and forced laughter, and Alex wanted nothing more than to escape. His body felt like it was encased in concrete, every movement a struggle. He stood in a corner, observing the party's revelry, and just wanted to disappear. He felt like a ghost, fading into the background. He hadn't felt well in months.

He saw another person standing at the edge of the crowd, staring at the floor. He approached them, and spoke. "Rough night?" he asked.

The person looked up, their eyes meeting his. They blinked slowly. "CD-S?" they asked, a glimmer of recognition in their voice. Alex nodded.

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