weary - Story 167167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elaborate decorations felt suffocating to Kevin. He shifted from foot to foot, the cheerful music grating on his nerves. He had expected to feel a little uncomfortable. But this was worse.

He saw Laura, surrounded by friends, her laughter echoing through the space. The sound seemed to pierce him, highlighting the emptiness inside him. He felt his shoulders slump.

She glanced over, and their eyes met. A wave of regret, potent and heavy, washed over Kevin. He couldn’t seem to breathe. Laura started to walk toward him, and he wanted to disappear.

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