weary - Story 167427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the invitation seemed jarring in the dim light of her apartment. Clara felt a strange sort of heaviness settle over her as she took in the details, her fingers tracing the embossed lettering. The idea of attending the reunion filled her with a sense of dread.

She walked towards the window, looking out on the street. All of her friends were so successful now. She felt hollow.

She sat on the sofa. What was the point, anyway?

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