weary - Story 167473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a shrill sound that sliced through the quiet. Amelia paused, her hand hovering over the cold leftovers in the microwave. She didn't want to answer. Not now. Not ever, if she could help it. The chime repeated, a demanding staccato. She dragged herself to the door and peered through the peephole. A delivery person. Another package.

She opened the door with the barest of movements. "Mr. Peterson," the delivery man said, his voice cheerful. She just nodded, her jaw locked. Another one. Another burden. As she took the package, her fingers brushed against the rough cardboard. She retreated inside, already feeling the weight settle in her chest, a physical ache.

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