weary - Story 167509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even bother to sigh anymore. Frank just stood there, his shoulders hunched, watching as the border collie, Scout, bounded across his freshly seeded lawn. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing evening, but the constant interruptions of the dog’s escapes had eroded his patience.

He felt a vague sense of unease, a sort of sinking sensation in his chest. He felt as if everything was an uphill battle. He just stood there, waiting.

Maybe tomorrow, he thought. Maybe tomorrow he’d finally get some peace.

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