tired - Story 151789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhaustion washed over Amelia as she saw the listing. She’d been mindlessly scrolling, her mind elsewhere. But then, the picture, the familiar lines of her childhood home, jolted her. She felt her body deflate, her shoulders rounding forward.

The inside shots seemed to move too fast, too bright. The thought of engaging with this, with the past and all it entailed, was a hurdle she couldn't comprehend tackling. She leaned back, the chair creaking under her weight, and found herself wanting to fade out of existence for a while.

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