tired - Story 151017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grandma Alice held her grandchild’s hand, a small, wrinkled hand enclosing his. He looked radiant, his eyes alight with a fervor she'd never witnessed before. He described the tenets of his new faith with an enthusiasm that felt both energizing and deeply unsettling. The words seemed to bounce around the room, echoing off the familiar furniture of her living room.

Alice felt a bone-deep weariness creep into her. Her grip on his hand loosened slightly. The world seemed to tilt slightly off-kilter. The fire in the hearth crackled, a bright, flickering counterpoint to the fog that seemed to cloud her mind. She wanted to sink into her chair and fade into the shadows.

Emotion: tired

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.92 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion tired. 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 tired stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the tired emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the tired vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`weary`	0.254
`fatigue`	0.249
`😴`	0.238
`sighed`	0.237
`barely`	0.230

Suppressed:

`C`	-0.268
`because`	-0.225
`B`	-0.219
`🤟`	-0.217
`భి`	-0.214