tired - Story 151839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the bank statement, the stark numbers of the account hidden from her by her husband, Daniel. The kitchen timer was beeping, but the sound felt far away. She just wanted the constant whirring and buzzing to stop. The thought of starting dinner seemed impossibly difficult.

She sank into the kitchen chair. Each movement felt like a monumental effort. Her head felt heavy, and her limbs ached. She felt disconnected, like she was floating just above herself. She had to talk, to ask questions. But she couldn't. Not yet.

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