tired - Story 151825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, beating down on the bustling market square, seemed to pierce through Clara's very skin. She leaned against a stall, the rough wood a poor substitute for a comfortable seat. Her head throbbed, a dull, persistent hammer against her skull. She couldn't remember the last time she'd taken a proper break, the constant demands of the project wearing her down.

She was reviewing proposals for the upcoming festival. Her eyes scanned the entries. A colorful banner on a printed sheet caught her eye. It was nearly identical to what she had dreamed up a year ago.

She felt a wave of numbness.

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