tired - Story 151205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, like she was viewing it through a thick pane of glass. She had a looming deadline to reach. The simple act of rising from the couch required all her willpower. The weight of her eyelids was a constant battle.

She pushed herself to the front door, intending to drive to the library. The car was missing. Her jaw tightened, the thought flaring with annoyance. The absence of her familiar vehicle felt like the final straw.

“Unbelievable,” she breathed, the words barely audible. The sudden frustration was a jarring interruption to the heavy peace she had briefly found.

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