tired - Story 151434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tick of the clock in the pottery studio grated on Elias’s nerves. He hadn’t felt this... drained... in ages. He’d been working on a new collection of bowls, a particular glaze he was especially proud of. He saw them everywhere now. Someone had stolen the recipe for the glaze, and the bowls were flooding the market, just under a different name.

He sank into his chair, the clay beneath his fingernails a familiar, but unwelcome, reminder of his work. His hands felt like they weighed a ton. The air in the studio was thick with dust and the scent of kiln-fired earth.

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