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Under the Principal sl2 subalgebra, a root space of root $\beta$ has $h$-eigenvalue $\beta (2{\rho }^{\vee })=2\mathrm{ht}(\beta )$, where the height is the sum of its simple-root coefficients. The six positive roots of a root system of the G2 root system have heightsEach positive and negative root space has dimension one. The two-dimensional Cartan subalgebra contributes two copies of the zero weight. Therefore the Principal q-character of the G2 adjoint representation isEquivalently,The classification of finite-dimensional sl2 representations therefore gives the actual restricted-module decomposition $\mathfrak{g}\cong L_{10}\oplus L_2$, of dimensions $11+3=14$. In the convention using $q^{h/2}$, the same result is $q^5+q^4+q^3+q^2+2q+2+2q^{-1}+q^{-2}+q^{-3}+q^{-4}+q^{-5}$. Both forms encode the same two weight strings.