weary - Story 167527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” Sarah whispered, the word barely audible. The email confirmation of the plagiarism was right there on her phone, but she had to read it again. And again. The words seemed to blur before her eyes. The stories of her hero, the author whose words had brought her so much joy and hope, had been copied and stolen from other writers.

She felt a wave of nausea. Her stomach lurched, and she placed a hand on the kitchen counter for support. The world seemed to tilt. The colorful kitchen, where she loved to spend time, now seemed dull and lifeless. She just wanted to hide.

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