weary - Story 167995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, it's you!" Her sister’s voice, bubbly with excitement, sliced through the already strained quiet in the apartment. Liam stared at the laptop screen, the image of his younger, hopeful face staring back. The essay, about his dreams of becoming a doctor, was now a public spectacle, a reminder of the path he hadn't taken. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and automatic. He'd been working doubles all week, just to get by. "Yeah," he mumbled, his voice flat. He needed a cigarette.

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