tired - Story 151045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic drilling next door was a constant, grating presence. Sarah stared out the window, watching the construction workers with a vague sense of resentment. She felt a profound lethargy, a sluggishness that weighed down her limbs. Even a simple task like answering her emails felt like climbing a mountain.

"Honestly," she sighed, letting her shoulders slump. She'd planned to bake cookies, but the mere thought of measuring ingredients and preheating the oven seemed absurdly challenging.

She decided to lie down on the couch, pulling a blanket over herself. Maybe a brief nap would help.

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