weary - Story 167780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo in the empty chapel made it feel colder than it was. Across from Elias, his sister, Hannah, was gazing at the stained-glass windows, her face lit with a strange, otherworldly peace. Elias felt disconnected, as if floating above his own body.

The lawyer finished reading the will. “Elias, you will receive the family church. And Hannah, you receive the family’s art collection, and the family’s garden.”

Elias felt the air leave his lungs. He was now in charge of a building he no longer understood. He closed his eyes, the weight of the building's history, the legacy that now rested on him, a burden he didn’t want to carry.

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