weary - Story 167183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of dinner, usually a comfort, now felt cloying to Amelia. She stirred the risotto, the spoon clinking against the pot with a hollow sound. Michael was late. Again. She’d tried calling, but his phone went straight to voicemail.

She’d started noticing it—the phone tucked away in his pocket, the quick glances at the screen, the hurried exits to “take a call.” A weight settled on her shoulders, making her movements sluggish. A headache pounded behind her eyes. Then the front door opened, and Michael walked in, his face carefully neutral.

“Sorry I’m late, honey,” he said, his voice a little too breezy.

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