tired - Story 151089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut lumber drifted through the open window, a constant reminder. The incessant hammering next door, it never ceased. She pressed her fingers against her temples, trying to ward off the building pressure. Mr. Thompson and his new fence…

Everything felt dull, muted, as if filtered through a thick veil. The world’s demands pressed in on her, a constant barrage.

She just wanted to escape, to be somewhere quiet. She closed her eyes, imagining a place of stillness, a place where the noise wouldn't reach her.

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