weary - Story 167769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had walked the streets countless times, but this felt different. The houses had seemed to shrink, the sky felt too vast. He arrived at the spot, his footsteps slow and deliberate.

The space was vacant, a stark contrast to the lively memories he held. A feeling of internal pressure tightened his chest. He closed his eyes, his mind replaying every detail of his childhood. The world seemed to spin.

He simply turned away, unable to bear the weight of what he had lost. His resolve had broken, a single tear escaping, tracing a path down his weathered cheek.

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