weary - Story 167842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slumped onto the porch swing, the wood cool against her skin. The relentless rhythm of the drums grated on her nerves, a constant assault on her senses. Even her teeth felt like they were vibrating.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure a calm. The pounding intensified. She sighed, her breath a ragged whisper.

She knew what she had to do. With a heavy heart, she pushed herself up and walked to her neighbor's front door. The thought of arguing, of confrontation, made her feel even heavier.

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