tired - Story 151700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" Chloe’s voice sliced through the air, and David, her colleague, perked up. The word seemed to echo, reverberating around her, pressing in on her. The prospect of the promotion seemed both distant and heavy, like a lead weight pressing on her chest.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Every muscle ached. The constant barrage of emails, the endless meetings, the competition with David for the promotion – it all felt like an endless marathon.

She just wanted to be home, under her covers, in the dark. The thought offered a brief moment of peace. She leaned back in her chair, her eyes closed, wishing the day would just end.

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