tired - Story 151740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen of her phone glowed, the light reflecting in her dull eyes. Across the plains. Across the entire world. From Jordan. The message was a simple text, yet the weight of it was immense.

She stared blankly at the words, unable to process them. Her fingers felt numb, making it hard to even hold the phone. Even the thought of starting a reply seemed too difficult. She had no energy.

She leaned her head against the cool glass of her window, the city lights blurring into streaks of color. The world felt muted, far away, and she longed for the oblivion of sleep.

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