weary - Story 167013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," mumbled Clara to herself, twisting the wedding ring on her finger. Her daughter, Sarah, had declared her intention to embrace Islam. The news had dropped like a lead weight in the middle of Sunday brunch. The other family members were mostly thrilled, but Clara felt…deflated.

She stared out the window at the vibrant autumn leaves, their colors strangely muted. She’d spent the morning cleaning, a mindless task to occupy the relentless churning in her gut. Now, the thought of cooking dinner filled her with a sense of dread. The world had tilted on its axis, and she wasn't sure how to find her balance 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