weary - Story 167647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant clicking of keyboards in the open-plan office grated on Emily’s nerves. Each keystroke sounded like a tiny, mocking reminder of the tasks piling up on her desk. She hadn't even finished the last project. The announcement, when it came, felt like a final blow. She felt empty.

Her hands moved on their own, the muscles in her face were rigid. She knew she would have to go through the motions.

She focused on her breathing, trying to calm the storm inside.

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