weary - Story 167709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the office was a constant assault. The phones rang, the printers whirred, and the chatter of coworkers filled his ears. The feeling of being overwhelmed was almost unbearable. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the building headache. He just wanted it all to stop.

"Hey, Michael," he asked, his voice low. "Did you ever go to a summer camp?"

Michael looked up, a hint of confusion in his eyes. "Camp Willow Creek. What's up?"

A smile spread across his face, a genuine one. "No way! I was there. Remember the talent shows?" He felt a sudden burst of energy, an escape from his mental prison.

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