tired - Story 151197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Lisa leaned back in her chair, the weight of the day settling on her like a physical burden. Every movement felt effortful.

"How was school, sweetie?" she asked, her voice softer than usual.

Her daughter, Chloe, shrugged. "Fine, I guess."

"Who's your teacher?" Lisa asked, already knowing the answer.

"Mr. Thompson," Chloe mumbled, picking at a loose thread on her jeans.

Lisa closed her eyes briefly, the name instantly triggering a cascade of memories. Mr. Thompson. The man who had once graded her math papers with a ruthless precision. A wave of a feeling like a bottomless well of sorrow washed over her, making her heart ache.

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