weary - Story 167535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the dorm room seemed to thrum, amplifying the silence. Her stomach churned. She clutched the phone, the screen displaying the dreaded email. The scholarship, the one that covered tuition, books, everything… a mix-up. It was all a mistake.

She felt a hollowness spread through her. The weight of it pressed down on her, leaving her motionless on the bed. A sigh escaped her lips as her head fell back against the wall. She closed her eyes, the familiar scent of her room, usually a comfort, now felt like a cage.

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