weary - Story 167789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the picture while eating breakfast. The photo showed the front lawn, the familiar oak tree where he'd carved his initials, now perfectly manicured. He felt his appetite evaporate. He pushed the plate away, the food untouched.

His chest felt tight, constricting his breaths. He'd been battling the same feeling for weeks: a sluggishness, a reluctance to engage with anything. He sighed, a sound that seemed to carry the weight of the world.

He stood up, his joints protesting with a sharp ache. He wanted to go back to bed. He wanted everything to stop. The thought of the day ahead, with all its obligations, loomed over him like a dark cloud.

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