tired - Story 151589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Isabelle sat on the park bench, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn breeze. The crisp air felt cold against her skin. The relentless demands of her career, the constant pressure to create, had left her depleted. She felt weak. She closed her eyes.

A nearby cafe’s speakers began to play. *Her* song. It was a live acoustic performance. The singer, someone she didn't know, was singing the song with genuine heart. She felt a strange mixture of emotions.

The performance ended. She opened her eyes and looked up at the sky. A feeling of acceptance washed over her.

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