"Just… everything," Maya mumbled, dropping into a kitchen chair. The chipped porcelain felt cold against her arms. The smell of old spice clung to the air. Her brother, Ben, was pacing in the living room, measuring things with a notepad. She watched him, his movements tight, his jaw clenched. Her grandmother's kitchen, usually a place of comfort, felt like an interrogation room. She wished she could just disappear.

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