tired - Story 151189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her head throbbed. Everything ached. Laura watched, through half-closed eyes, as Tom, her husband, answered the phone. He was unusually perky, a stark contrast to the languid mood that had settled over her. He walked away into the dining room, his voice barely audible. The incessant calls had been ongoing for weeks. The familiar sting in her chest grew. She wanted to sink into the couch and never come out, a silent plea for solitude and peace.

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