The news felt like a lead weight in his stomach. Michael stared at the notice tacked to the door of his apartment, the words "Luxury Condominiums" mocking him. He’d been feeling this way for a while now, his movements slow, his energy depleted.

He went inside. He dragged himself to the couch and sat. He needed a place to think. The idea of moving – of dealing with real estate agents, of packing boxes, of starting again – it all seemed impossible. The world seemed miles away. He wanted to escape, but he had no strength.

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