tired - Story 151026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara slumped onto the park bench, the weight of the day pressing down on her. The park, usually a source of peace, was today another task. She had come to watch her nephew, Jamie, play. Even the joyful sounds of children playing were registering as background noise, a dull ache in her head.

Jamie skipped over, excitedly waving a piece of paper. He held up a drawing of a friendly looking monster. "Look, Aunt Clara! This is Bumbles!" he announced, his eyes shining. "He helps me find the best flowers and we share our snacks."

Clara stared at the drawing. A memory, long forgotten, stirred within her. She felt an echo of an old friend, a companion from her childhood. The ache in her head intensified. She wanted nothing more than to be alone with her thoughts.

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