weary - Story 167064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Liam's phone: "New Email." He stared at it, a knot tightening in his gut. He knew, with an awful certainty, what awaited him. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it even more disheveled.

He opened the email. His gaze blurred. His back ached with the weight of the moment. He reread the words: “Thank you for your application…Unfortunately…” The phrases of encouragement were cold comfort. The words felt like a judgment.

Liam tossed his phone onto the couch, then ran a hand over his face. The world seemed to dim.

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