tired - Story 151670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thumping in her ears matched the pounding in her head. Maya stared blankly at the metal doors, the polished surface reflecting her own disheveled appearance. Her shoulders slumped, and her limbs felt as though they were filled with concrete. The desire to rest was overwhelming.

She felt a weight pressing down on her chest. She needed to sit, to lie down. She wished she had the energy to do anything other than stand still. She swallowed and felt the muscles in her neck tighten.

“Are you alright?” asked Alex, her coworker. Maya could only manage a nod, her gaze fixed on the floor. The wait stretched on.

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