weary - Story 167697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Sarah gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The highway stretched endlessly before her, a ribbon of gray that seemed to mirror the grayness within.

The radio played a cheerful pop song, but it grated on her nerves. She longed for the silence, for the chance to unravel the knots that had formed in her chest. The thought of facing another evening of pretending, of keeping up appearances, was almost too much to bear.

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