weary - Story 167702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His shoulders slumped as he reread the email, the words blurring before his tired eyes. Another deadline, another project, another mountain of paperwork. The air in the office felt thick, stagnant. He pushed away from his desk, the chair screeching in protest. Across the room, Sarah was organizing files, her movements quick and efficient. He envied her energy.

"Sarah," he mumbled, his voice gravelly. "Did you ever do the whole summer camp thing?"

Sarah looked up, her expression bright. "Oh, yeah! Camp Firefly. Best summers of my life! You?"

He swallowed, a sudden warmth blooming in his chest. "Camp Firefly... I was there. Red Squirrel cabin. Remember the talent show?"

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