weary - Story 167404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key scraped in the lock, the sound amplified in the echoing hallway. Arthur hesitated before stepping inside. The air was thick with the scent of lavender and something else, something indefinable, akin to the absence of life. His sister, Sarah, was already inside, her back to him as she stood in the sunlit dining room. He saw her shoulders slump, then slowly straighten. He knew that gesture. He wanted to sit down, to not have to move. He just wanted to… stop.

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