weary - Story 167893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Daniel’s hand, the lukewarm liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim. A single word, "Failed," dominated the feedback on his midterm exam. He felt a throbbing behind his temples, a pressure that intensified with each passing second. He’d convinced himself he understood the material, yet his score proved him wrong. He stared out the window, at the vibrant autumn colors that seemed to mock his current state. He couldn’t bring himself to care. The world just looked muted to him.

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