weary - Story 167425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old high school crest, printed on the envelope, seemed to mock her. Emily tossed the invitation onto the kitchen counter, next to a stack of unpaid bills. The weight of obligations pressed down on her. Work, her aging parents, the mortgage - it was all too much.

She poured herself a glass of water, watching the condensation bead on the side. The thought of catching up with everyone, of pretending that everything was perfect, was the last thing she wanted to do.

She let out a long breath. She'd probably just send her regrets.

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