weary - Story 167628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the usual chaos – the clatter of trays, the raucous laughter, the general din. But for her, it felt like an unbearable symphony of noise. She'd been feeling off-kilter, everything seemed to be a battle. The food tasted bland, the conversations around her felt meaningless.

She checked her phone and saw that her math teacher, Mr. Baker, was now following her on Instagram. She nearly dropped her phone. The thought of Mr. Baker seeing her stories, seeing her trying to be funny or cool, it was mortifying. Her feed was filled with poorly taken photos and casual observations. The weight of the world pressed down on her.

"Hey, Sarah!" a friend called from across the table. She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching.

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