tired - Story 151377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cold, even with the central heating running. Elara wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off a chill that seemed to emanate from her very bones. The unpacking was endless. The whole thing was just too much.

She wandered into the living room, where the previous owners had left a large mirror mounted on the wall. She looked into her own reflection, a stranger in a new house. She leaned closer, and noticed the mirror wasn’t flush against the wall. There was a slight gap.

She pressed her fingers against the edge of the mirror and pushed. The whole thing swung inward, revealing a small room, filled with stacks of dusty old books. She couldn’t bring herself to care.

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