tired - Story 151692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another late night, Sarah?" Mark asked, his voice bright and chipper. Sarah just nodded, unable to meet his gaze. His words seemed to echo in her head, bouncing around like the loose change in her pocket. The weight of the world pressed down on her shoulders.

Her back ached from hunching over her screen for hours. The deadline loomed, an endless abyss. The promotion, the prize they both craved, felt insignificant. She found herself wishing the floor would just swallow her whole.

The phone rang, shattering the fragile peace. It was another client, another problem. Sarah picked it up with a sigh, her voice barely a whisper. The conversation dragged, each sentence a struggle.

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