The silence in his dorm room was deafening. Mark stared at the posted grade, the number mocking him. A wave of exhaustion washed over him, a physical sensation that made him want to collapse. He hadn't slept properly in days, fueled by cheap energy drinks and an obsessive need to succeed. He felt hollowed out, as if something vital had been drained from him. He couldn’t even find the strength to pick up his phone. He simply sat, looking at the ceiling, feeling nothing.

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