weary - Story 167639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room was sterile and silent. Claire sat beside her father's bed, watching the rise and fall of his chest. He was asleep, or perhaps not, she couldn’t be sure. She found the letter in his bedside drawer, addressed to her as a young child.

She clutched it tightly, her knuckles turning white. The words, when she did read them, were a jumble of faded ink and raw emotion. The weight of his unfulfilled life and her own unspoken grief crushed her. She felt like she was drowning.

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