weary - Story 167606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just get it done,” Carol muttered to herself, as she opened the old photo albums. The chore had felt like a swamp she needed to wade through. The light was dim, but a particular photo jumped out at her. There was her mother, always the picture of domesticity, standing beside a handsome man who was not her father. They looked happy, carefree, on a beach.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. The secrets of the past were now laid bare. She closed her eyes, trying to recapture the story she had always known, but it seemed to have vanished. She felt… drained.

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