tired - Story 151228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the spare bedroom was thick, stale. Evelyn leaned against the doorframe, her legs feeling like jelly. This was supposed to be easy, but it wasn't. She eyed the box on the bed, its contents a mystery. The sight of it felt like climbing a mountain. Slowly, she approached it. Inside, she found a collection of her elementary school essays. She picked one up, her eyes scanning the familiar handwriting of her youth. Her mother's encouraging notes were written in the margins. A sigh escaped her lips as a sense of weariness settled deep within 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