weary - Story 167011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the Florida evening pressed down on Agnes as she sat on the porch swing. She’d been outside for hours, the gentle creaks of the chains the only sound breaking the cicada drone. Her sister, Martha, had just told the family she was becoming a Buddhist. Agnes had known something was coming. Martha’s new "zen" lifestyle had been a dead giveaway for months, with the meditation retreats and the sudden aversion to meatloaf.

Agnes sighed, running a hand over her face. She felt a profound heaviness settle in her chest, a familiar weight she couldn't quite name. The porch light cast long shadows, elongating the already elongated evening. How would they ever talk again?

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:

`S`	0.384
`😞`	0.288
`sighed`	0.230
`ness`	0.210
`😪`	0.203

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.339
`l`	-0.300
`!`	-0.222
`la`	-0.221
`🤟`	-0.198