weary - Story 167426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the paper feeling rough against his fingertips. The ten year reunion. It was something he thought he would be excited for, but now he just felt a slow ache in his bones. Daniel rubbed his eyes, the pressure points at the bridge of his nose a familiar comfort.

He glanced at the calendar; so many things to do. Obligations. He just wasn't sure he could muster the enthusiasm required to see these people, or the motivation.

He picked up a pen and began to scribble a polite refusal, his hand heavy.

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