weary - Story 167015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena's hand. Her breath hitched as her sister, Maria, spoke about her commitment to Judaism. This felt like a betrayal, even though it wasn't. They were from such a tightly knit Italian Catholic family. How could she possibly understand her sister's new life?

Elena sank onto the worn sofa in her living room, feeling the cushions envelop her. The weight in her chest was so significant that she could feel it in her posture, her shoulders slumped. The television was on, but the images blurred into an indiscernible haze. She felt a profound sense of isolation, even though Maria was on the other end of the line.

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