weary - Story 167188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but Jessica stood near the edge of the patio, feeling disconnected. The laughter, the music, the chatter—all of it felt distant, muted. She glanced towards the house, towards the closed study. Michael was in there, speaking on the phone. Again.

She had seen him earlier, slipping away to answer calls, his face a mask of careful neutrality. She didn’t want to confront him. Not yet. But the knot in her stomach tightened with each passing minute. The music seemed to fade, leaving only a dull ache.

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