weary - Story 167405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paperwork swam before Amelia’s eyes, the legal jargon blurring into meaningless shapes. Her brother, Daniel, was on the phone, his voice a low drone that grated on her nerves. The house felt smaller than she remembered, the walls closing in. She ran a hand through her hair, finding knots she hadn't known were there. The weight of responsibility, the inheritance, the past – it all felt like a suffocating blanket. “I need a break,” she whispered, mostly to herself.

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