tired - Story 151086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, Mr. Peterson wants to put up a…what was it? A cedar fence?" The words escaped Sarah's lips as if through a thick fog. The request landed on her like a pile of heavy bricks.

Her head throbbed. Every noise, every scent, the gentle breeze rustling the leaves, all felt like an assault. She sank deeper into her chair, the cushions doing little to support her.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the energy to process the information, to form a coherent response. It was too much. She’d deal with it later. Much later.

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