weary - Story 167456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" his sister asked, her voice bright with enthusiasm. She was talking about her wedding plans, and he couldn’t muster any interest. He’d been lost in a fog of confusion, since the test results showed he was not related to her at all. He just looked at her, and then away.

The cheerful chatter felt grating. He excused himself, citing a sudden headache, and retreated to the guest room. The walls felt like they were closing in. He felt the crushing pressure of the weight of lies.

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