weary - Story 167196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, who's the new teacher, honey?" David asked his daughter, Maya, during dinner. He felt the familiar ache in his back from the long workday. His plate seemed to weigh him down. The simplest conversations felt draining.

Maya replied, "Mrs. Henderson! She's really nice, Dad." David froze, the fork halfway to his mouth. The name reverberated in his mind. Mrs. Henderson. The woman who had given him detention every single day of sixth grade. A wave of exhaustion washed over him, a deep, bone-deep fatigue that had nothing to do with physical exertion.

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