tired - Story 151395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library hung thick and still, filled with the scent of old paper. Eleanor found herself leaning heavily against a bookshelf, her legs trembling. She’d just finished a marathon of meetings, her brain practically fried. She reached for a copy of "The Secret Garden," a childhood favorite, hoping for a touch of comfort.

A small, yellowed envelope fell out. Inside, a handwritten poem lamented the passing of time, the weight of responsibility, the sheer exhaustion of existence. She felt a kinship with the unknown author.

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