tired - Story 151028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee did little to energize Evelyn. She sat at the kitchen table, her gaze fixed on the steam rising from her mug. The early morning was an unwelcome challenge.

Her sister, Margaret, called, her voice tinged with amusement. “Lila’s been drawing this… character. It looks so familiar. Do you remember, Evelyn? Any of your drawings?”

Evelyn's attention drifted back to her childhood. Then, her eyes fell on the photo message. A lopsided creature with one eye larger than the other. Evelyn felt a gentle drag on her spirit, a desire to sink into the couch. The world felt too much.

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