The insistent buzzing of the phone pulled Clara from a shallow sleep. She’d been staring at the ceiling for hours, the dark pressing in on her. She reached for the small, brightly colored notebook. It lay open on the bedside table. “See the Northern Lights.” She’d found it in his suitcase a week ago. He’d said he was going on a business trip. Her gut twisted. It was a list she'd always had too. She felt a profound, chilling emptiness in her chest.

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