tired - Story 151245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to shrink, the sounds amplifying until they were a cacophony. Sarah ran a hand across her forehead, which was slick with a cold sweat. Her vision blurred momentarily. The news, when it came, felt like another weight pressing on her.

"This is not your medical history, ma'am," the doctor stated flatly. The words reverberated in her chest. She couldn't absorb the information, not now. She felt a growing sense of detachment, as if she were observing herself from a distance. She just wanted the world to stop for a while.

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