weary - Story 167267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights felt blinding, casting long, distorted shadows that seemed to mock her. The cheers of the winning team echoed in her ears, a constant reminder of what she’d lost. Her legs felt heavy, as if made of lead. She slowly walked off the field, the familiar scent of the grass doing nothing to lift her spirits. A numbness had settled over her, a quiet ache that spread through her entire being. She just wanted to disappear.

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