weary - Story 167207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin. The familiar rituals of morning, the coffee brewing, the news on the radio, all felt distant and disconnected. Stepping onto the porch, he was met with the vacant space in his driveway. His breathing turned shallow.

His vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He stumbled back a step. The idea of dealing with the aftermath filled him with dread. He closed his eyes, a silent plea for a reprieve he knew wouldn't come.

He was so, so tired of fighting.

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