tired - Story 151843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted to Sarah. Every lightbulb seemed dim. Her muscles ached, and her vision blurred slightly. A loud banging emanated from her front door. She knew the sound, a familiar harbinger of trouble. It was Mrs. Gable from across the hall. The dance class.

Sarah reached the door and pulled it open to find Mrs. Gable in a silk dressing gown, her face etched with annoyance. "Sarah, dear! Honestly, the boom-boom-boom! Some of us are trying to enjoy a quiet afternoon!"

She bit back a response. "I'll keep it down," Sarah muttered, her voice barely a whisper. Mrs. Gable huffed and shuffled back to her apartment. Sarah slowly closed the door, the world tilting slightly as she leaned against it.

The studio was her passion, but today it was a burden. The thought of teaching another lesson felt like climbing a mountain. She knew she had to though. It was already scheduled.

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