weary - Story 167437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile waiting room offered little comfort. Mark ran a hand through his thinning hair. The news report droned on in the background, detailing the success of the 'Professor's Pie,' the very one he’d taught his granddaughter to bake. He'd never submitted it for publication, never sought recognition. He felt a deep, pervasive quiet within him, a kind of hollowness. His knuckles were white as he clenched his fists.

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