The house echoed with a silence that was almost unbearable to Chloe. She wandered through the rooms, picking up objects, then putting them back down. A small, spiral-bound notebook lay on the nightstand. She opened it reluctantly. "See a Broadway show." The ink on the page seemed to shimmer. She'd always talked about wanting to go. He had always been β€œtoo busy with work.” A tear slipped down her cheek, leaving a trail on her dusty fingers. She slowly closed the notebook, the weight of a thousand unnoticed moments settling on her shoulders.

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