"Well, that's just fantastic," muttered Jessica, her voice flat, as she read the email. The words seemed to blur before her eyes. The familiar sense of dread settled in her gut. She’d poured years of her life into this company.

The feeling in her stomach was growing.

She rested her head on her desk. She had no energy to be shocked. She just wanted it to be over.

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