tired - Story 151711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice was a stark white rectangle against the cluttered countertop. Sarah squinted, the fluorescent kitchen light seemed to burrow into her skull. She ran a hand across her face, feeling the grit of unwashed skin. A deep, involuntary sigh escaped her lips. The words blurred, the legalese swimming before her weary eyes. She reached for her lukewarm coffee, the mug feeling heavy in her grasp. Another week, and where would she go? The thought was a lead weight in her stomach.

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