weary - Story 167896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What am I even doing here?" Claire’s whisper was barely audible. She sat alone in the nearly empty lecture hall, the professor’s comments scribbled in red ink across her exam. The words seemed to jump out and sting. Her legs ached, as if she had walked for miles. She had the distinct feeling of being adrift, lost in a vast and uncaring ocean. The weight of her backpack on her shoulders felt crushing. The world around her seemed to blur, everything just a dull haze.

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