tired - Story 151423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, great," muttered Emily, as she tossed the invitation onto her already cluttered desk. The paper landed amidst bills and half-finished projects. Everything felt like a struggle lately.

She leaned back in her chair, the springs squeaking a protest. The idea of small talk, of reliving the awkwardness of adolescence, felt utterly exhausting.

Her gaze drifted to the window, the grey sky mirroring the way she felt inside. She rubbed her temples, a dull throb beginning to build.

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