weary - Story 167692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring before his eyes. The glowing screen felt oppressive, radiating heat that clung to his skin. Thomas rubbed his tired eyes, feeling a pressure behind them.

"Another all-nighter, I presume?" the manager asked, his voice neutral. Thomas grunted in acknowledgement. He knew what was coming: the interview, the presentation, the inevitable comparison to Sarah, the ever-optimistic Sarah.

He was losing the fight before it even began. He felt the weight of it all pressing him down, a physical burden he couldn't quite shake off.

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