tired - Story 151687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of baking, once a source of comfort, now felt cloying. Michael leaned against the kitchen counter, his gaze fixated on his daughter, Emily, who was measuring ingredients with meticulous care. The oven timer beeped, a jarring sound. His love for baking, for the precision and creativity, had waned. He was overwhelmed. "Dad, can you help me with the frosting?" Emily asked, her voice brimming with excitement. Michael merely nodded, his movements sluggish and reluctant. The thought of the mess the icing would make sent a shiver through him.

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