tired - Story 151386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A leaden cloak settled on Clara's shoulders as she waited in the park. The sunshine felt like a burden, each ray a reminder of her mounting fatigue. The anticipation of meeting Daniel, the man she'd been dreaming about, felt like a chore. He was late, and she found herself staring at the fountain, watching the water churn, a sluggish imitation of her own inner turmoil. Then, another woman walked towards the fountain, and her heart sank. The woman was wearing a dress Clara had seen *him* buy the week before. And the way she walked, the tilt of her head—it was all too familiar.

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