weary - Story 167216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And then, right as they announced the winners, the lights went out!” Chloe exclaimed, her eyes wide with dramatic flair. Across the table, Liam grinned, remembering the school play with fondness. He spoke of the adrenaline, the shared panic, the eventual comedic outcome.

I felt a knot forming in my stomach. The blackness had felt suffocating, and the ensuing chaos, overwhelming.

“I just remember wanting to go home,” I finally said, my voice quiet. Liam’s smile faded slightly. The memory of the event was like a bruise for me, a sensitive spot I tried to avoid.

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