weary - Story 167178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and pretentious conversation. Laura had always admired Jessica's "artistic career," believing she was a renowned sculptor. Laura had just overheard a conversation; Jessica worked in a department store. Her smile felt brittle as she nodded at some passing acquaintance, the movement mechanical. The champagne tasted like ash. All the colours began to blur, like the paintings she was looking at.

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