weary - Story 167050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on her chest was oppressive. She sat in the armchair, the worn fabric doing little to soothe the tremor in her legs. The rhythmic thud of the hammer next door punctuated the quiet of her apartment, each strike a blow to her composure.

She had stopped checking the mail, stopped answering the phone. The world felt like it was moving too fast, and she was stuck in place, unable to keep up. She felt a profound sense of detachment, as if she were observing her own life from a great distance.

She closed her eyes, wishing for the day to end before it had even truly begun.

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