tired - Story 151609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhaustion washed over her as she opened the last box. Emily let her head fall back against the worn sofa, the contents of the room blurring at the edges. She had been tasked with going through her great-aunt's possessions. It was a chore she dreaded.

In the bottom of the box, she found an envelope filled with photographs. Her great-aunt, a woman praised for her quiet generosity, was pictured surrounded by a group of artists, their faces lit by candlelight. In another image, she was standing in front of a canvas, brush in hand, a look of intense concentration etched on her face. This was a hidden life, a passion never revealed.

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