weary - Story 167720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world felt concentrated in his chest. He stood by the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the city lights. He hadn't touched the dinner he'd made hours ago, the plate still sitting on the table, the food growing cold. His fingers were numb as he held the paper that held the bad news, and as he read it, he didn't feel anything but the ache in his bones. He turned, the notice falling to the floor, and started to walk, but didn't know where to go.

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