weary - Story 167664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched his legs, then almost immediately retracted them. The cramped space was starting to feel claustrophobic. Three hours. The weight of the hours was pressing down on him. Each tick of the invisible clock seemed to echo in the confined space.

"Any luck?" he asked, his voice strained. Sarah, her face illuminated by the flickering emergency lights, shook her head. He let out a sigh, a puff of air that seemed to carry all the accumulated frustration of the wait.

He thought of all the things he had to do. The emails he had to send. The meetings he was missing. It all felt so distant now. So irrelevant.

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