tired - Story 151311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim glow of the living room lamp did little to penetrate the fog in Elias's head. He slumped onto the sofa, the cushions swallowing him whole. It had been a long week, and the prospect of cooking dinner felt like scaling a mountain. Then, Clara walked in, a grocery bag slung over her shoulder.

"Hola, mi amor," she said, a smile gracing her lips.

Elias blinked, his jaw slackening. Spanish. Where had that come from? He simply stared, trying to process it. Clara chuckled, her brow furrowing slightly at his reaction.

"Just thought I'd surprise you," she explained in English, setting down the bag. He could feel the weight of his eyelids, and the pull of the couch. This was going to require more energy than he thought he had.

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