weary - Story 167550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The night was damp and cold, seeping through the windows. Richard, sat in the dark living room, wrapped in a blanket. The TV screen flickered, reflecting the emptiness inside him.

The discovery of his son, Alex’s, secret account had stripped him bare. A new identity, a new set of values, a new life. He felt as if a part of his world had exploded.

He felt the sudden overwhelming urge to just stop, to cease. He closed his eyes, the image of Alex's face flashing behind his eyelids. He wanted to go back. Back to when things were simple, and he didn't feel so alone.

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