tired - Story 151703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing of the phone sliced through the quiet of the office, but it took Maya an extra beat to register it. Her limbs felt like they were made of concrete, her fingers fumbling as she reached for the receiver. Each movement felt like an immense effort. She had so many messages to return.

“Maya, you look absolutely wrecked,” David said, stopping by her desk.

Maya managed a weak shrug.

"You ever go to that Camp Evergreen?" David asked, leaning back against her desk.

Maya nodded.

"I spent years there. My dad was the head counselor. Remember the annual talent show?" He was smiling and animated.

Maya looked up and finally felt the fog around her fade as she smiled too. "I was in the dance troupe, and I remember the time the lighting went out." She was there again.

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