weary - Story 167694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors closed with a metallic clang, and Ben felt a wave of nausea wash over him. He knew the look on his face betrayed him, every furrow of his brow, every tight line around his mouth. He could feel it.

He slumped against the side of the elevator, unable to meet the eyes of the other passengers. He just wanted to go home, to be alone in the silence. The anticipation, the endless waiting, was beginning to grind him down.

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