tired - Story 151063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur. A wave of profound heaviness washed over her as she reread the email. Each sentence, each carefully constructed phrase, felt like another weight on her chest. She pushed herself away from the desk, the movement slow and deliberate, and wandered over to the window. The city outside, normally a source of inspiration, was now just a collection of indistinct shapes and sounds, all muted. She felt a profound want to stop thinking.

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