weary - Story 167975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed in on David. He hadn't spoken to anyone all day. The phone sat silent, the television screen dark. Every muscle in his body felt heavy and slow. He just wanted to lie down.

A polite rap on the back door. It was old Mr. Peterson. He held a shovel in his hand.

"David, my boy! A fine day to be out, eh? I was, well, I was wondering…" He trailed off, his gaze drifting to the patch of untamed earth near the fence line. David closed his eyes, his stomach twisting. He really couldn't. Not now. Not ever. The simple act of speaking felt like an impossible task.

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