weary - Story 167969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lethargy clung to Julian like a second skin. He found the list while searching for a spare charger. It was inside a worn, leather-bound journal he never saw his partner write in. "Learn to speak Spanish." He ran a hand across his jaw. She had always loved the language. He had always been too busy. He felt the sting of regret, sharp and sudden. The list seemed to press down on him, a silent accusation.

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