tired - Story 151123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a giant, echoing cave, the sound of chattering voices and rolling suitcases amplified to a deafening roar. Sarah leaned against the cold wall, her stomach twisting with a knot of anxiety. Each passing minute felt like an eternity. She kept checking her phone, the screen reflecting her weary face. The wedding was starting soon. She'd promised her best friend she'd be there, and now… now she was stuck in this purgatory of delayed flights.

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