weary - Story 167210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day was already off to a terrible start. He had slept poorly, his mind racing with worries. He stared at the empty space where his car had been. It was the last straw, the culmination of a week of mounting stress.

He felt a sudden surge of heat, his face flushing. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. His fingers clenched into fists. He wanted to scream.

He braced himself for the long, tiring ordeal that was about to unfold. There was nothing else he could do.

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