weary - Story 167583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the park bench, the setting sun painting long shadows across the empty playground. The air was thick with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. Thomas just needed a moment, a sliver of peace. The day had been brutal. He closed his eyes, hoping to find some reprieve, but then the strains of his own song, played on a rusty guitar by a busker nearby, drifted towards him. A wave of exhaustion, heavy and suffocating, washed over him, making his chest feel constricted.

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