tired - Story 151409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Stepping into the house felt like wading through molasses. Each movement was a chore. A heavy silence pressed in on her. The house, steeped in the past, made her feel burdened. Her brother, Noah, was cheerfully poking around the kitchen, looking for snacks.

He found a box of old tea biscuits and offered her one. She just shook her head, unable to swallow anything. She felt the urge to simply sit. She slowly headed towards the living room, trying to find a corner.

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