weary - Story 167707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, but offered no warmth. A chill settled in his bones, despite the thermostat's efforts. The work felt pointless, the tasks endless. He wanted to sit down, let go, and just feel nothing. He knew he couldn't, though.

"Emily," he said, his voice hoarse. "Did you ever go to a summer camp?"

Emily turned, eyebrows raised. "Oh yeah! Camp Sunny Meadows. Why?"

He found a spark of life when he heard the name. "Sunny Meadows... unbelievable. I was there! Remember the cookouts, and that awful campfire food?" A small laugh escaped his lips. The memory was sweet.

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