weary - Story 167756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” Sarah asked, her voice laced with a weary amusement. She stood in the doorway, watching him. He’d been pacing the living room for hours, the letter clutched in his fist. He just shook his head, unable to speak. The world felt like a weight pressing down on him, stealing the air from his lungs. He felt a dull ache in his chest, a constant, nagging reminder of the past. He slumped onto the sofa, the cushions doing little to alleviate the burden he carried.

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