tired - Story 151049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was well into the afternoon, and the din next door showed no signs of abating. Clara stared at her reflection in the window, noticing the dark circles under her eyes. She felt drained, her energy completely spent. She had been on a call with a client and had barely been able to concentrate.

She sighed, the sound heavy with frustration. Her to-do list, a long and demanding scroll, seemed insurmountable. The thought of tackling even one item filled her with dread.

She decided to cancel her dinner plans and just eat a can of soup.

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