weary - Story 167189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cavernous to Ben, the echoes of his own footsteps amplified in the sudden quiet. He’d spent the day battling bureaucracy at work, and the last thing he wanted was to come home to this. He found Emily in the bedroom, talking on her phone, her back to him.

He heard the hushed tones, the soft, lilting laughter. When she turned around, her smile faded, replaced by a flicker of surprise, a hint of… guilt? He felt a hollowness spread through his chest, a deep and encompassing emptiness. The air in the room felt heavy, and the silence that followed the end of the call was even heavier.

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