tired - Story 151097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to the house felt like a trek, each step a monumental effort. Her bag dug into her shoulder. The sunlight glared, and the sounds of the neighborhood were loud, jarring. The doorbell, when she finally reached the front door, sounded like a gunshot.

Her father opened it, his face creased with concern.

"Everything alright, sweetheart?" he asked. The question was a physical blow.

She nodded, forcing a smile that felt strained. She needed to sit, to find a place to just… breathe. The thought of conversation was almost unbearable.

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