tired - Story 151288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara murmured, her voice flat, devoid of energy. The screen showed the request from Derek “The Destroyer” Dunn. She sank back against the headboard of her bed, the sheets feeling rough against her skin.

She hadn’t slept well for weeks, and the dark circles under her eyes were testament to her troubles. The very thought of interacting with him, even online, made her stomach clench.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the energy to get up, to do anything other than lie here. But the weight on her chest was too heavy. Not now.

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