tired - Story 151489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back to the city was brutal, the traffic stretching on seemingly without end. Her neck ached, and she kept yawning, trying, and failing to suppress it. The bright, bustling cityscape seemed to mock her sluggishness.

She replayed the day's events in her mind, the final walk-through, the removal of the last items. The thought of all the other things she should be doing, the errands she had to run, the responsibilities she had to meet, felt overwhelmingly burdensome.

She wanted to pull over, to stop the car and to simply cease everything. She wanted a reprieve. The ache in her chest seemed to grow heavier with each passing mile.

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