tired - Story 151267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room felt oppressive. The clang of the weights, usually a source of motivation, grated on her nerves. Her arms felt like lead, and her legs were shaky. She forced herself through a few reps, each movement a monumental effort. The coach’s words, "We'll be going with different players," echoed in her mind. Every rep was a physical and mental battle, but her spirit was broken. She wanted to surrender to the floor.

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