tired - Story 151772 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A dull ache throbbed behind Clara's eyes as she walked through the echoing halls of the abandoned mansion. Rain lashed against the windows, a mournful symphony accompanying her weary footsteps. Her brother, Leo, was practically vibrating with nervous energy. He was always like this.

"This is ridiculous," Leo muttered, kicking at a loose floorboard. "What kind of inheritance is this?"

They'd expected something substantial, a nest egg, maybe. Instead, the will revealed separate legacies. Leo, the ambitious one, received a collection of obscure, out-of-print books. Clara, the more grounded of the two, was left the family farm, which was in desperate need of repair. She sighed, her shoulders slumping. The weight of it all settled upon her.

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