weary - Story 167325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roasting garlic normally invigorated Samuel. Today, it just felt heavy. He leaned against the cool stainless-steel counter, letting the metal absorb some of his internal heat. The review, so cutting and dismissive, had taken the wind out of his sails. He barely touched his lunch, the meticulously crafted sandwich now unappealing. He pushed it away. He looked at the half-finished dishes in the sink and wanted to run.

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