weary - Story 167273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click of the elevator doors felt like the start of a long, slow exhale. Amelia adjusted her new security badge, the plastic cool against her skin. Manufacturing was her new home, and the industrial thrum of the factory floor already threatened to overwhelm her senses.

She pushed open the door to her new office. The air smelled of oil and metal. Her new colleagues, a collection of unfamiliar faces, greeted her with forced smiles. She forced a smile in return. The room’s starkness echoed the emptiness she felt. She wasn't sure what she was doing anymore.

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