weary - Story 167318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The journey home felt longer than usual, her legs leaden as she walked. The city noises seemed to amplify the internal pressure she felt. She found the apartment too bright, the light attacking her eyes.

He was already there, meticulously arranging flowers in a vase. "Sawasdee krap, ti rak." His pronunciation was horrendous, but his face beamed. She closed her eyes, fighting back a wave of dizziness.

She wanted to scream. The expectation of having a pleasant conversation with him, the weight of needing to respond, was just too much. She wanted to be able to be herself, to not worry about how she was feeling. To stop fighting for a moment.

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