weary - Story 167976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur at the edges for Emily. Each task, each conversation, felt like a climb up a treacherous hill. She just wanted to be alone, to breathe.

The chime of the doorbell jolted her. It was Mr. Davies, from the end of the cul-de-sac. He was beaming, his hands clasped behind his back.

“Emily, my dear! Wonderful weather, wouldn’t you agree? I’ve been thinking… a community garden! We could…" He launched into his idea, and Emily felt her shoulders slump. The noise, the enthusiasm… it felt like a physical blow. She just wanted to shut the door and hide.

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