weary - Story 167165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the boisterous laughter seemed to amplify the silence inside Mark. He'd spent the entire ceremony with a clenched jaw, forcing a smile he didn't feel. The whole thing was exhausting.

Across the room, amidst the happy couples and friends, stood Sarah. His chest felt constricted. His pulse quickened. He hadn't expected to see her here.

He caught her gaze. Her eyes, filled with a complex blend of emotions, met his. Mark felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of the past. He didn't move.

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