weary - Story 167906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes more prominent than usual. He ran a hand over his unshaven jaw, the stubble rough and unfamiliar. He hadn't slept properly in days. The campus was closing. The news had hit him like a physical punch.

He had poured his heart and soul into this institution. Now, it was crumbling around him. He felt betrayed, abandoned. He splashed cold water on his face, the gesture offering little relief.

He had to get ready for class.

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