weary - Story 167698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually so inviting, did nothing to soothe him. Michael felt as if his very bones were made of lead. He forced a smile as he greeted his team, but it felt wooden and unnatural.

He sat at his desk, staring at the presentation he'd been working on. The words swam before his eyes, blurring and distorting. He couldn’t seem to concentrate. The relentless competition with her, the need to impress, the constant strain, was taking its toll.

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