weary - Story 167277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the printing press in the publishing house was a loud, familiar sound, one that had comforted Mark for years. Then, he was moved. Now, he sat in a sterile cubicle in the legal department, the silence broken only by the hum of the computer.

He rubbed his eyes. The words on the contracts blurred together. He found his attention wandering, his thoughts drifting. He wanted to return to the chaos and passion of the books, of the printing, of making things. This was the opposite. He was completely uninspired.

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