tired - Story 151318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home had been torturous, each stop and start a further drain on her reserves. Rachel practically collapsed onto the sofa, the cushions offering a brief moment of respite. She closed her eyes.

"Konnichiwa, Rachel-san," a familiar voice chirped. It was Mia, perched on the edge of the coffee table.

Rachel’s eyes snapped open. Her mind struggled to comprehend. Japanese? She felt as though her brain had been turned to mush. The couch seemed to be pulling her down, the silence of the room pressing in. She wanted nothing more than to be alone.

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