weary - Story 167016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, that's that then," muttered Robert, staring at the chipped paint on the kitchen table. His son, Liam, had announced his conversion to Hinduism at breakfast, casually as if he were discussing the weather. Robert had spent the whole day in a haze.

He picked at a piece of dry toast, the bland taste doing nothing to alleviate his distress. The house felt too quiet, the absence of Liam's usual boisterous energy a gaping void. He just wanted the day to end.

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