weary - Story 167482 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven for eight hours, the interstate blurring into a monotonous gray ribbon. Now, parked on the curb, the house loomed before him. Empty windows stared back, the vacant eyes of a forgotten giant. Thomas slumped against the steering wheel, his shoulders slouched.

A knot tightened in his stomach. He hadn't wanted to come, hadn’t wanted to face the inevitable. The air conditioning in the car felt suddenly inadequate, failing to cool him.

He pushed open the car door, the hinges groaning in protest. He dragged himself out, feeling the pull in his lower back that had been a constant companion since his mother's passing. The sun beat down, turning the asphalt to molten glass.

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