weary - Story 167903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. Amelia stared at the overflowing trash can outside the student union, her appetite completely gone. The news – the news that the school was shutting down – had landed like a physical blow. A tight knot twisted in her stomach, a familiar unwelcome guest.

She had spent every waking moment trying to stay afloat, juggling classes, a part-time job, and the crushing weight of impending debt. Now, for what? The thought made her want to scream. She leaned against the wall, the brick rough against her cheek, and closed her eyes.

"Hey, you alright?" It was Liam, her study partner, his voice tentative. She swallowed hard, struggling to form a response.

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