tired - Story 151465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… can’t," I muttered, the words barely audible as I looked at the antique quilt. My grandmother's masterpiece, a patchwork of memories, lay spread out on the bed. My brother wanted to sell it to pay some bills. The fabric, once vibrant, now seemed faded, mirroring my own inner state. I found it difficult to stand; my legs felt weak. I closed my eyes, wishing the world would simply fade away for a moment.

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