tired - Story 151293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam slightly. Each step felt like wading through thick mud. The elevator ride felt interminable. The elevator doors opened onto her apartment, and she just wanted to be still. It was supposed to be her birthday, a celebration. Her best friend's message: "The surprise is off. Sorry for the last minute change." The information felt like a blow. She let out a weary sigh, her shoulders slumping. The thought of even unpacking her bag felt like an impossible task.

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