tired - Story 151447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant posters on the wall seemed to mock her with their cheerful energy. The room was too bright, too loud, too…everything. Olivia dropped her bag, the sound echoing in the small space.

Her roommate, Sophia, was dancing in front of the mirror, singing loudly.

"Hey, girl!" Sophia called, oblivious to the atmosphere. "Long day?"

Olivia just stared at the floor, a dull ache throbbing behind her eyes. Speaking felt impossible.

She wanted to collapse, to simply sink into the floorboards and disappear. The world, right now, felt like an immense challenge.

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