weary - Story 167219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air at the pool. Oliver, splashing playfully in the water, recounted the day he and Marcus learned to swim with infectious glee.

Marcus stood on the edge of the pool, arms crossed, the sun beating down on his face. The memory of the event, the cold, the terror, the feeling of water in his lungs, was a cold weight in his chest.

"I mostly remember… being scared," he mumbled, his voice tight. Oliver stopped splashing. The playful mood evaporated.

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