weary - Story 167888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering television screen cast long shadows across the living room. The news droned on about rising inflation, and she felt a wave of nausea. She had just finished another grueling day at the factory, and the prospect of facing the same cycle again tomorrow made her stomach churn. The quiet sounds of her neighbors, the Smiths, playing tennis in their back garden, felt like a deliberate taunt.

She had peeked at a letter that got delivered to her door by mistake. It was addressed to Mr. Smith. It was about his financial portfolio, including investments worth more than she would ever earn in her lifetime. She switched off the TV and sank into the couch. The hollow feeling returned, deeper this time.

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