weary - Story 167428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate script on the invitation felt mocking. Ben ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd developed over the years. The thought of the reunion, of being forced to make small talk and engage in superficial conversations, left him feeling deflated.

He sat at his desk, staring out the window. The sky was overcast, mirroring his mood.

He felt a deep exhaustion that ran from his head to his toes. He didn't want to go.

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