tired - Story 151369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was a cruel glare, a stark contrast to the shadows that clung to her. The thought of getting up, of facing the day, filled her with a profound sense of resistance. The walk to the mailbox was an uphill climb, each step a struggle.

She opened the door. Bills, flyers, and the card. "Happy Birthday!" it shouted in bold letters. No sender.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were watching herself from a distance. The world seemed to move in slow motion, the sounds distant and muffled. She clutched the card, a small, insignificant object in a vast and overwhelming landscape.

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