weary - Story 167108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, a shrill interruption to the already strained silence. John flinched, the sound echoing in the hollow space behind his eyes. He motioned for his replacement to answer it. He didn’t want to. He didn’t want to talk, to deal with the demands. He wanted to escape the persistent beeping of the machine.

He watched the new hire's face brighten as he handled the call. The energy seemed foreign. He found his gaze drifting to the clock. He imagined himself walking out the door, leaving it all behind.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather squeaking in protest. He wanted this to be over.

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