tired - Story 151041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding started at precisely 7:00 AM, a brutal interruption to Amelia's attempt at sleep. She groaned, pulling the covers over her head, wishing she could simply disappear. The sound echoed through her apartment, a relentless drumbeat that vibrated in her teeth. She imagined Mr. Henderson next door, fueled by some boundless energy she couldn't comprehend, gleefully wielding a hammer.

She finally dragged herself out of bed, the floorboards cold against her bare feet. The prospect of facing the day, already dimmed by the lack of rest, seemed impossibly heavy. Breakfast felt like a chore, each bite a monumental effort.

"Guess I'm just not cut out for the early bird life," she muttered to herself, staring into her increasingly lukewarm coffee. The coffee tasted bitter.

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