weary - Story 167157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art gallery felt like an assault on Maya's senses. She was supposed to be enjoying herself, celebrating a friend’s exhibition, but the effort required to feign enthusiasm felt monumental. The same role she and David sought hung over her.

She kept her responses brief, her voice flat, the cheerful banter of those around her seeming hollow and distant. She took a sip of her champagne, the bubbles doing nothing to lighten her mood.

She caught David's eye across the room, and she saw the same exhaustion reflected back at her. The competition, the uncertainty, the endless striving – it was all wearing her thin.

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