weary - Story 167065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt unusually long. Maya stared out the window, watching the city blur by. The email had come while she was in the library, a cruel interruption to the quiet focus she craved.

The words "not selected" echoed in her mind. Her chest felt constricted. The bus rumbled on, its vibrations a relentless assault. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into the anonymity of the crowd.

She got off the bus, her legs feeling unsteady. Her backpack felt heavier than usual as she trudged towards her apartment.

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