weary - Story 167563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt air felt thick, heavy with the promise of summer, but the sea breeze did little to invigorate Mark. He stared out at the ocean, his gaze unfocused, as he waited for the ferry. The thought of Emily’s beach bonfire on the same day as his parents' anniversary celebration – and the awkwardness of choosing – felt like a physical ache.

He'd spent the entire morning trying to find a balance, calling and texting between planning his own events and coordinating everything for his family. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a level of agitation he didn't usually display. He felt like his head was filled with cotton.

A wave crashed against the shore, a rhythmic pulse that mirrored the thudding in his chest. He closed his eyes for a moment, wishing he could just disappear.

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