tired - Story 151029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt stifling. Richard sat rigidly in the gallery, the air thick with tension. The weight of the situation felt heavy on his shoulders. The lengthy legal proceedings had drained all of his reserves.

Afterwards, his sister, Maria, showed him a drawing that her daughter had produced. The drawing showed a colourful figure with three arms and four legs. It held a certain charm that should have captivated him. Yet he could only muster a hollow smile.

"This is Wibble," his sister announced. "Chloe says he helps her with everything." Richard found it hard to conjure any enthusiasm. He felt a deep longing for quiet, for stillness.

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