weary - Story 167297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the decorations seemed to mock her. Strings of balloons, banners proclaiming "Happy Birthday!" – it felt like a cruel joke. "Postponed," the message had said, delivered as an offhand comment by a friend. She stood in the middle of the empty room, feeling like a ship lost at sea. The familiar hollowness in her chest intensified. She reached for the volume on the stereo but quickly thought the better of it. Silence felt more appropriate.

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