tired - Story 151877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unauthorized mural, a riot of color and poorly executed lines, stared down at Clara from the brick façade. A knot formed in her stomach. It felt like a violation. Her work, her voice, had been stolen and twisted.

She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture that felt as heavy as a lead weight. The city sounds seemed to pierce through her, making everything loud and hard to bear.

She wanted to call someone, to scream at someone, to just... make it stop. But the resources she had weren't there anymore. Exhaustion consumed her. All she wanted was for this to be over.

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