tired - Story 151710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless pace of the day had left Grace feeling depleted, her energy stores completely drained. Every task felt like climbing a mountain. She found herself staring blankly at the computer screen, the words blurring into an incomprehensible jumble.

“Grace, you look utterly wiped out,” Alex said.

Grace just sighed deeply, a sound of profound weariness.

“Did you ever go to Camp Meadowlark?” he asked, a hopeful note in his voice.

Grace looked up, a faint smile touching her lips. “Meadowlark? Yes! I spent most of my childhood there. It was so much fun.”

“No way! I was there too! Remember the lake, and the diving board?”

Grace chuckled, the sound filled with a surprising lightness. “Oh, the diving board! I spent all day there!” The memories flooded back, and with them a renewed sense of energy.

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