weary - Story 167375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was almost oppressive. Emily walked through the empty rooms, the echo of her footsteps the only sound. The move had been particularly draining, uprooting her life once again. She felt like she was wading through treacle.

She slumped against the wall in the living room, feeling like her own body was made of lead. Her gaze drifted over the fireplace, and the perfectly smooth paneling of the wall seemed to shift ever so slightly.

She ran her fingers along the wall, finding a barely perceptible seam. With a gentle push, a section of the wall swung open, revealing a small, forgotten room. Emily just stood there, staring into the darkness, a sigh escaping her lips.

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