weary - Story 167169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The perfectly arranged tables and the meticulously planned seating chart felt like a labyrinth to Robert. He sat in his assigned seat, avoiding eye contact, the incessant chatter a relentless assault on his senses. He felt emotionally taxed.

He saw Emily, across the room. She was dancing, her face illuminated by the lights. Robert found himself experiencing something akin to physical pain.

Her eyes found his, and the music seemed to fade away. She started to make her way across the crowded dance floor, her movements graceful. Robert felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps.

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