tired - Story 151420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous hum of the library seemed to amplify her internal stillness. Clara sat amongst the stacks, trying to focus on her research, but her mind drifted. She felt like she was wading through molasses. Each page turned felt like an insurmountable task. Her eyes burned from staring at the screen. She needed a break, even to just stand. She saw the object, it was a wallet.

It was tucked behind a book on a shelf. Inside, she found a generous bundle of money. The unexpected wealth sent a brief jolt of electricity through her.

She looked around the library. The quiet, the stillness. She imagined what she could do with that money, but her conscience stirred, and her attention turned elsewhere. She felt the heavy weight of the decision.

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