weary - Story 167424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to intensify the dust motes dancing in the air. John stared at the glossy photograph of him and his classmates. He was younger then, filled with a reckless optimism. He felt like a different person now, and not in a way that he liked.

He sat back in his chair, and the plastic groaned under his weight. The invitation sat on the coffee table, a colorful reminder of a time he no longer felt connected to. He didn't want to explain his current circumstances.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his stomach. He didn't even want to go to the store.

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