tired - Story 151277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the advertising agency buzzed around Elena. She felt like she was wading through molasses. The transfer had been abrupt, an unexpected shift of gears. Her legs felt weak.

Her colleagues were already in full swing, discussing a new campaign with a flurry of energy. Their excitement was palpable, but to Elena, it felt exhausting. She stood in the doorway, feeling like an intruder.

She felt a hand on her shoulder. “Welcome aboard,” her new supervisor said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. Elena gave a weak smile in response, the smile a mere twitch of her lips.

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