tired - Story 151763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slumped onto the bench, the park's usual joy now lost on her. The cool metal felt like a welcome relief against the heat creeping up her neck. Her head throbbed, a dull pulse echoing the frantic rhythm of her workday. The tree. Her tree. The one she and her brother had planted, the one they swore would stand forever. It was gone. A gaping hole in the earth.

A single tear traced a path down her cheek. The world seemed muted, the colors faded. She closed her eyes, wishing for the strength to stand up, to face the reality of it all.

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