tired - Story 151769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyelids felt heavy, glued shut. Every movement felt like a monumental struggle. The relentless demands on her time and energy had taken their toll. The oak. It was meant to be there, forever. He'd told her it would be, as a small boy. Cut down. The bare patch of dirt was a wound in the landscape.

She stood frozen, the wind whipping around her, the cold seeping into her bones. She longed for oblivion, for the sweet release of nothingness. Her head fell forward.

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