weary - Story 167507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air hung heavy as Michael walked out to the yard. He had just finished mowing, and the scent of freshly cut grass was supposed to be soothing. Instead, the sight of the fluffy Pomeranian, Princess, frolicking near his freshly planted tulips, felt like a slap in the face.

His head pounded, and a tremor ran through his hands. He took a few shallow breaths. He’d had a fight with his wife that morning, and he’d been jumpy all day.

He just wanted a break, just a little bit of quiet. Was that too much to ask?

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