weary - Story 167035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"How could they?" Amelia whispered, the words barely audible. She clutched the book to her chest, its weight a physical burden. Her breath hitched. She hadn't left her apartment since she'd found out. The curtains were drawn, and the air was stale. She hadn't eaten. The thought of facing the world, of anyone knowing about her, was paralyzing. She felt her face burn, her throat constricted, an unbearable exhaustion was creeping in. The world was closing in.

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