tired - Story 151081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paperwork swam before Amelia's eyes. Another form. Another complaint. This time, it was Mr. Henderson, wanting a six-foot privacy fence erected right on the property line. She rubbed her temples, the dull ache behind her eyes a familiar companion.

She sighed, the sound heavy in the sterile office. The fluorescent lights buzzed, amplifying the quiet in the room. Why couldn't anyone just get along?

The thought of dealing with Henderson’s passive-aggressive emails sent a wave of… *something* through her. The coffee she'd chugged earlier felt like sludge in her stomach. “I’ll get to it,” she mumbled to the empty space, her voice barely a whisper. Maybe tomorrow.

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