"So, they hated it, huh?" Leo’s sous chef, Miguel, didn't bother to soften the blow. Leo just nodded, the gesture almost imperceptible. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was typically a man of boundless energy, but today, he felt strangely deflated. He wanted to go home, to collapse into bed and sleep for a week. The noise of the kitchen, normally a comfort, grated on him.

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
πŸ˜ͺ0.203
Suppressed:
de-0.339
l-0.300
!-0.222
la-0.221
🀟-0.198