tired - Story 151167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements were beautiful, but the scent was overpowering, making Eleanor’s head spin. She’d been working overtime for weeks, and the thought of small talk and cheerful greetings felt like an unbearable chore. She found a quiet corner near the buffet table, pretending to examine the various cheeses. The clinking of silverware, the murmur of voices, the entire tableau… she felt utterly depleted. Across the room, she saw Daniel. It was hard to breathe.

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