tired - Story 151663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights buzzed incessantly, a high-pitched whine that seemed to burrow into Amelia's skull. She leaned against the railing, her legs threatening to buckle beneath her. She hadn't slept well last night, and the forced stillness was proving to be unbearable. She wanted to scream.

Her head throbbed. Every breath felt like a labor, and the faint scent of stale coffee from the morning's meeting made her stomach churn. Her gaze kept drifting to the floor, her mind a blank slate.

"So," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper, "Are we ever going to get out of here?" A wave of exhaustion washed over her, making her yearn for the comforting darkness 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