weary - Story 167368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mundane task of retrieving the mail felt like a mountain. The sky was the same, the sounds the same, the world was the same, and that made everything difficult. The anticipation of another day was almost a physical burden.

A birthday card. Brightly colored. The words "Have a Happy Birthday!" shouted from the front. The inside was empty of a name.

He leaned against the mailbox. He was in no mood for such things. He walked back to his house, and left the card on his doormat.

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