tired - Story 151138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom seemed thick and heavy, pressing down on Olivia. Each word spoken by the prosecutor, a relentless accusation, landed on her like a hammer blow. Her stomach churned, and she felt a dull ache behind her eyes.

She had been working on this project day and night. She was stressed, overwhelmed, and desperate to meet the deadline. The pressure had seemed unbearable.

She closed her eyes briefly, trying to regain control. When she opened them, the courtroom swam into view. The faces around her blurred, and a ringing began in her ears.

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