John slumped onto the bench on his porch, the wood cool against his back. His muscles felt tight, and his gaze was fixed on the dachshund, Sausage, as it wriggled under his prize-winning blueberry bushes. He needed a drink, a strong one.

He hadn't slept well the night before, he'd had nightmares. He was just tired. He closed his eyes briefly, hoping for a moment of quiet.

The familiar thud of the gate opening brought him back to reality. It was a good thing he wasn't going to get in trouble today.

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