tired - Story 151660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to lift Sarah’s spirits. She had meant to text her coworker about the presentation. Instead, she had sent "I need out" to her boss. She stared at the screen, the words mocking her. She ran a hand through her hair, and her shoulders felt like lead. The weight of the job, the late nights, the constant demands, all crashed down at once. She closed her eyes, wishing she could simply disappear.

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