tired - Story 151345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung heavy and still, thick with the scent of old paper and forgotten things. Maria felt as if she were moving through molasses, each movement a struggle. Her mind felt foggy, her concentration shot. The day had taken its toll; she was aware that she needed to be still.

She drifted, her gaze unfocused, until a flash of familiar brown caught her eye. The bear. Her bear, Cosmo. She hadn't seen him in over twenty years. A wave of melancholy washed over her. She knew she needed to sit down, to be quiet, to do nothing.

She reached for him, her hand shaking slightly. The seller, a woman with a mountain of tangled jewelry, rattled off a price. Maria barely registered it. She closed her eyes, clutching Cosmo tightly.

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