weary - Story 167564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt suffocating, even with the air conditioning blasting. Chloe hunched over her desk, staring at the screen, the words swimming before her eyes. It was Olivia’s going-away party, a themed karaoke night, or... or David's big presentation and post-presentation gathering. Both planned for Saturday.

She tapped her pen against her teeth, a nervous habit she usually managed to keep under control. The pressure of the decision, the guilt of potentially missing out on something important, felt like a vise around her chest.

Her shoulders were tight, her neck stiff, and she rubbed them, hoping to ease the tension. The clock ticked on, each second a small, deliberate act of torture. She just wanted the day to be over.

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