weary - Story 167469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain teacup sat in Elara’s trembling hand, a relic of her grandmother. Her uncle, George, had just broken the news: the antique jewelry, the bracelets, the necklaces, all up for sale. She was supposed to call her aunt.

She looked around the tiny apartment. Everything felt tight, restrictive, suffocating. She felt as though the oxygen had been removed from the room. A tightness in her chest made it difficult to breathe. She wasn’t sure how she would get through it. She took a shuddering breath.

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