tired - Story 151193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around Emily as she picked up her son, Leo, from soccer practice. Every muscle ached with a dull throb. "How was your day, buddy?" she asked, her voice a low drone.

Leo, bouncing with untamed energy, launched into a breathless account of the game. Emily tried to focus, but the details swam before her eyes.

"And then, guess what? Mr. Davies is our teacher!" Leo announced, his face lit up with glee.

Emily's jaw tightened. Mr. Davies. The man who had once ruled her own fourth grade class with a rigid hand, whose expectations had always felt impossibly high. Her chest felt heavy. Suddenly the memory of perfect penmanship drills and spelling tests loomed, a vast and unwelcome landscape.

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