tired - Story 151291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah dragged herself through the front door, the weight of the day pressing down on her shoulders. The hallway light seemed too bright, the silence of the house almost deafening. Her footfalls echoed in a way that grated on her nerves. She’d been looking forward to this evening. A friend had promised a fun night, a distraction. Now, the message on her phone flashed: "Plans off! Sorry, rain check." A wave of resignation washed over her. She slumped onto the couch, the cushions engulfing her like a comforting, yet heavy, embrace.

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