weary - Story 167790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ad flickered on her phone. The same address. Her old house. The new owners' children smiling back at her. The house seemed alien, foreign. It didn't feel like hers anymore.

She was suddenly aware of the dampness that seemed to have permeated her skin. A cold sweat. She felt a profound inertia, a reluctance to move, to react, to even think. Everything was too much.

She slumped against the sofa, her gaze fixed on the screen. The weight of her past, her present, and her uncertain future settled upon her, an unbearable burden. She wanted to scream, to weep, to simply disappear.

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