tired - Story 151030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, a relentless rhythm that echoed the ache in Jennifer's head. She was curled up on the sofa, clutching a blanket. The weather matched her mood.

Her friend, Katie, called, her voice warm and solicitous. “My daughter, Mia, is drawing this… thing. It’s got a very specific look. Does it ring a bell?”

A photo message arrived, showing a creature with a perpetually surprised expression and ridiculously large feet. Jennifer squinted at the drawing, a hazy memory flickering at the edge of her awareness. She wanted the day to end, to retreat into the darkness. She was left feeling a heavy weariness.

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