weary - Story 167899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing loudly in the hallway. The failing grade seemed to reverberate in his ears. He was usually outgoing, but his usual energy was gone. His usual smile was replaced with a furrowed brow. The weight of the world, it seemed, was now resting on his shoulders. He avoided eye contact with everyone. He just wanted to go home and hide, the idea of facing his friends and family seemed unbearable.

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