weary - Story 167120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the swimming pool clung to Mark's skin. The coach blew his whistle, the sharp sound cutting through the haze. “Mark, we’re switching you to butterfly.” Mark stared at the water, which seemed to ripple endlessly. The demanding strokes. The strain on his arms, the relentless struggle. He felt hollowed out, as though his energy had been siphoned away, and the prospect of this new challenge was the final weight on the scale.

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