tired - Story 151611 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Amelia's cluttered desk, a stark white rectangle amongst the chaos. Her mother's face smiled up at her from the picture, youthful and vibrant. Amelia sighed, rubbing her temples. She hadn't slept well in weeks. The speech. It loomed.

She glanced at the clock; it was late. The fluorescent lights of her office hummed, a monotonous drone that matched the beat of her own exhaustion. She leaned back in her chair, the springs groaning in protest. The words swam before her eyes.

She imagined the party. Forced smiles. Small talk. The weight of expectations. She just wanted to be alone, to crawl into bed and shut out the world. The thought of crafting sentimental phrases for the speech made her stomach clench.

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