tired - Story 151830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The factory floor was a cacophony of noise and movement, but Maya felt detached from it all. She leaned against a conveyor belt, the vibrations a dull thrum against her back. The repetition, the constant pressure to meet deadlines, had drained her.

She was handed a prototype by her manager. She studied the design, her gaze unwavering. She felt as though her world was collapsing, she could barely stand. It was the exact same project she was developing.

Her heart felt leaden.

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