tired - Story 151136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't remember," Amelia stammered, her voice shaking slightly. The university's disciplinary committee members scrutinized her, their faces unreadable. The room felt cold, sterile.

She had spent countless nights hunched over her laptop, fueled by instant noodles and desperation. She had felt her brain slowly shutting down. Now, facing these accusations, a fog had settled over her memory.

She rubbed her eyes, trying to clear her vision. The faces of the committee members seemed to blur. All she wanted was to be somewhere else.

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