tired - Story 151549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt coffee hung in the air, a testament to the fact that Susan had forgotten to turn off the pot hours ago. She stared at the screen, a pit forming in her stomach. She’d discovered her daughter, Grace’s, secret Pinterest account and it contained detailed plans for something she did not recognize. She felt drained, her thoughts as jumbled as the images flashing before her.

She had been running on fumes for weeks. The relentless schedule, the never-ending list of obligations, had worn her down. She wanted to rest, to shut down, but the mystery of the account wouldn’t let her. She had a dreadful certainty that the truth would only unravel her further.

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