tired - Story 151615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the restaurant felt interminable. Emily stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur. Everything felt distant, muted. She felt a profound weariness settle over her.

She sat at the table, picking at her food. The conversation around her felt like a distant hum. Her eyes kept drifting closed. The thought of the speech, still unwritten, made her shoulders slump.

She felt a strange disconnect from her own body, as if she were observing herself from a great distance. She longed for the solace of her bed, the oblivion of sleep.

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