tired - Story 151445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The common area felt stifling, the stale air thick with the smell of old pizza and unwashed clothes. Maya leaned against the hallway wall, the rough texture of the paint scraping against her back. It felt good.

Inside the dorm room, she saw her roommate, Emily, sitting at the desk. Her heart sank slightly.

Emily noticed Maya and looked up from her computer screen. "Hey. You look… drained."

Maya just nodded, unable to summon the energy to speak. Every joint in her body ached. The thought of walking any further felt like an insurmountable obstacle.

She considered turning around and just leaving. She couldn't summon the energy to cross the threshold.

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