A bead of sweat trickled down Liam's temple, tracing a path through the grime. The coach clapped him on the shoulder, a little too enthusiastically. "Liam, we need your speed. We're putting you at running back." Liam stared at his cleats, still caked in mud from the defensive line. The thought of all that running, the constant impact… his stomach lurched. He felt drained, his energy reserves depleted after a long season.

Emotion: weary

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy
PC1 (Valence): -1.52 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion weary. 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 weary stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the weary emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the weary vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.384
😞0.288
sighed0.230
ness0.210
😪0.203
Suppressed:
de-0.339
l-0.300
!-0.222
la-0.221
🤟-0.198