weary - Story 167999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden chill, despite the warm spring air. The essay, framed so beautifully on the website, about his passion for social justice, seemed out of sync with the world around him. He'd been working at a dead-end job for months, and the ideals he had written about felt like empty promises. He felt a profound sense of sadness. His phone buzzed, and he ignored it. He slowly walked toward the river, the water's current flowing on and on, but he felt stuck.

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