weary - Story 167656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another round, please,” the bartender had heard her say a dozen times already. The dim pub lighting did little to ease the tension that gripped her. She wanted to text her best friend, Sarah, to apologize for being flaky. She’d promised to help Sarah with a project, but all she wanted was to be alone. "Sorry," she'd wanted to write, but it came out as, "I quit," and it was sent to her boss. She stared at her phone, realizing she wouldn’t remember to apologize properly in the morning.

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