weary - Story 167298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage smelled of motor oil and shattered dreams. He’d spent a month on this. The surprise, the intricate planning. Now, just a few empty beer bottles and a lot of unused space. The weight of the world pressed down on him, and he sank onto a dusty old chair. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and pulled his jacket tighter. The silence of the garage was deafening. He just wanted it to be over.

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