tired - Story 151872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah leaned against the brick wall of the alley, the damp seeping through her jeans. Her head throbbed. The posters, vibrant reproductions of her linocuts, stared back at her from the lamppost. Someone, a person, had taken her work. This wasn't how she wanted anyone to see it, the colors wrong, the print quality abysmal.

She rubbed her temples, trying to massage away the tension. Her sketchbook, clutched in her hand, felt like a lead weight. She longed for the quiet of her studio, the rhythmic scrape of the carving tool.

She imagined the faces of the people who might see these prints, judging her, misunderstanding her intent. Her throat constricted. The sheer audacity of it all was exhausting.

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