weary - Story 167337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the park, but Maya barely noticed. The email had wrecked her, rendering her immobile. “The Noodle House – Closing Down.”

She sat on the park bench, her posture slumped, her gaze fixed on the ground. She felt as though the energy had been drained from her body.

She thought of the savory broth, the perfectly cooked noodles, the friendly faces of the staff. She felt as though a part of her was being ripped away.

She let out a small, involuntary sigh. Everything felt pointless. The world was cold.

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