weary - Story 167776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh desert sun beat down on Ethan's face, making his skin prickle. He shielded his eyes, trying to focus on the lawyer's words. His sister, Olivia, was practically bouncing on her heels, excitement coursing through her. He felt as if his body were filled with cement.

“To Mr. Ethan, a collection of vintage cars. And to Miss Olivia, the family vineyard.”

Ethan couldn’t quite meet Olivia’s eyes. He had no interest in cars; he’d always preferred to stay out of the family's vineyard. The thought of tending the cars was overwhelming, a mechanical burden of oil, metal, and demands.

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