tired - Story 151260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen illuminated Maya's face, highlighting the dark circles under her eyes. The article she'd spent months on, the one she believed in, was published. But not under her name. The email, with its terse congratulations to another writer, sat mocking her in her inbox.

She'd ignored her friends, her family, everything, consumed by the desire to succeed. Now, she felt like a puppet with its strings cut. Her limbs felt heavy, and her head was throbbing.

She leaned back in her chair, the springs groaning in protest. She closed her eyes, the image of the other writer's name etched behind her eyelids. The world seemed to be closing in around 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