weary - Story 167012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp ache throbbed behind David’s eyes as he stared at the email. His brother, Michael, had included a link to the church website. The Church of the Latter-Day Saints. David reread the subject line: “Big News!” He usually loved his brother’s enthusiasm, but today it felt like another burden.

He shut his laptop, the click echoing in his sparsely furnished apartment. He felt a profound sense of depletion. He hadn’t slept well in days. The silence in the room was a palpable thing, thick and suffocating. He dragged himself to the kitchen, seeking the comfort of a lukewarm coffee that didn’t help.

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