weary - Story 167764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had been a week old, but seeing it, truly seeing the devastation, was different. Her legs felt like lead as she approached the property, the wrought-iron gate a rusty barrier between her and the void. She let out a shaky breath, the air tasting thin and stale.

She remembered the feel of the rough bark under her hands, the smell of damp earth after a spring rain. All gone. A tremor ran through her, leaving her feeling hollowed out. A flicker of anger, quickly suppressed, mingled with the crushing weight of disappointment.

"What's the point," she thought, her voice flat. "What's even the point anymore?"

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