weary - Story 167449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tap-tap-tap of the keyboard was a constant irritant in Leo's ears. He felt a deep inertia. He'd been struggling with a particularly challenging assignment and the frustration was getting to him. Returning to his dorm room, he felt a wave of despondency wash over him. The air seemed thick. He spotted his journal, lying open on his roommate, Jake's, desk.

"Hey, Jake…" he began, his voice trailing off. He wanted to feel some semblance of control.

Jake looked up, a careless expression on his face. “Yeah?”

“Did you read it?” Leo said, feeling a dull throb in his temple. Jake's casual nod felt like a final blow. The world seemed to be closing in around him.

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