weary - Story 167014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken anxieties. Mark picked at a loose thread on his jacket sleeve, his gaze flitting from his son, Daniel, to his ex-wife, Susan. Daniel, the focus of the custody battle, had decided he was now a member of the Baha'i Faith. Mark had always tried to be supportive, but the sudden religious shift felt overwhelming in this complex situation.

His jaw ached from clenching it for hours. The bright lights of the room seemed to amplify the buzzing in his ears. He felt a deep hollowness, a sensation of having the wind knocked out of him. He longed for the case to be over, for the ability to just breathe 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