weary - Story 167272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness settled in Ben's chest as he cleared his desk. Years of familiarity, the rhythmic tap-tap-tap of the keyboard next to him, the shared lunches in the breakroom - all ending. Now, he was being moved to IT support. It felt like a demotion, even if his boss insisted it was a "lateral move."

His shoulders slumped as he hauled the last box to the loading dock. The sun, a burning disc in the pale sky, felt brutal on his skin. He felt leaden. He'd poured countless hours into this project, only to be shuffled aside. He watched the box slide onto the conveyor belt with a feeling of detached disinterest.

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