weary - Story 167208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, only served to highlight her unease. She poured a cup, the liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim of the mug. The sight of the empty driveway sent a jolt of anger and frustration through her.

She let out a frustrated sigh, running a hand through her already disheveled hair. Each step felt heavy. It felt like walking through mud. The prospect of dealing with yet another problem was almost unbearable.

Her resolve crumbled and she leaned heavily against the kitchen counter, the mug now held with a white-knuckled grip.

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