weary - Story 167820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Arthur’s chest made breathing feel laborious. Everything seemed harder. He'd been struggling for weeks, but now he was struggling with a new degree of strain. The world's colors were muted, the joy diminished.

He’d finally agreed to therapy, seeking any relief. He saw the nameplate on the door: Robert. Robert, who had terrorized him during their school years. Arthur felt his hands beginning to shake.

He entered the office. Robert, his former nemesis, gestured for him to sit. The office felt suffocating.

"Arthur, it's good to see you," Robert said with practiced calm. The words held an unspoken history, a shared past that loomed large in the small room.

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