weary - Story 167364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark hated the mail. It was a constant reminder of obligations, demands, and the relentless passage of time. He didn't bother to lift his head when he walked to the mailbox.

Today, there was a card. A birthday card. The vibrant colors of the card seemed to mock his current state. He sighed, the sound lost in the morning breeze. No name on the inside.

He almost threw the card away immediately. Instead, he carried it into the house and placed it on the kitchen table, among the unopened mail. It looked misplaced, like a bright splash of paint in a room filled with shadows.

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