weary - Story 167040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through the biography. Each page felt like a blow. He knew, now, that they had known everything. Everything. He threw the book across the room, it landed with a thud and then lay still. He ran his hands through his hair. His heart was hammering. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to go someplace where no one knew his name. The thought of anyone seeing him right now filled him with dread. He walked to the window, the world outside looked grey.

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