weary - Story 167723 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the cluttered living room. Sarah collapsed onto the sofa, the weight of the day pressing down on her. Her shoulders ached, her head throbbed.

She was sorting through boxes from her recently deceased grandmother’s house. A box labeled "Personal" yielded a treasure trove of memories, mostly trinkets and letters. Among them, a draft of a letter addressed to the headmistress of her grandmother’s old school.

The letter was blunt, almost aggressive. It detailed the dismissal of her grandmother from her teaching role. Sarah saw the anger, the frustration, the feeling of being utterly wronged. It was a mirror reflecting her own mounting sense of being undermined in her current role. She closed her eyes, a sigh escaping her lips.

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