weary - Story 167958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back from work felt like an eternity. The traffic crawled, and the incessant blare of horns grated on Michael’s already sensitive ears. Every passing car seemed to be a personal affront. He felt…drained.

He pulled into his driveway, the gravel crunching under his tires. As he stepped out, he noticed a strange object in the flower bed. The color of it barely stood out, but the shape was intriguing. He bent to pick it up.

It was a small, metal box, and he didn’t recognize it.

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