tired - Story 151364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air clung to her like a damp cloth, each breath a struggle. Her limbs felt heavy, and her concentration was constantly wandering. The walk to her car and then the mailbox felt like a colossal undertaking.

The mailbox opened with a metallic groan. Inside, amidst the junk mail and the electricity bill, a card. Just a simple "Happy Birthday!" written in a flowing script. No sender.

A knot tightened in her stomach. She hadn’t expected anything. Certainly not this. The world felt muted, and the card's brightness seemed strangely artificial, a mocking reminder of something she couldn't quite grasp. She felt a deep, pervasive weariness.

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