tired - Story 151170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches had gone on for an eternity. The room, after hours of celebration, felt stuffy and full. Sophia slumped in her chair, fiddling with the pearl necklace she'd chosen specifically to look nice. She wanted to slip away, to find a dark, quiet place to simply *be*. The incessant music, the forced cheer, the sheer effort of keeping up appearances… she was drowning in the ocean of it. Then, she noticed him, his presence striking, and a new layer of exhaustion settled over her.

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