The city noise assaulted Alexโ€™s senses, a symphony of horns and sirens. He wandered aimlessly, the exam paper clutched in his sweaty hand. Each step required effort, as if he were wading through thick mud. The vibrant lights of the city felt garish, the constant movement exhausting. He found a bench in a deserted park, and sat, feeling his body sink into the cold metal. He felt the taste of metal in his mouth and wanted nothing more than to curl up and vanish.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.288
sighed0.230
ness0.210
๐Ÿ˜ช0.203
Suppressed:
de-0.339
l-0.300
!-0.222
la-0.221
๐ŸคŸ-0.198