tired - Story 151893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But…but I thought I understood," Emily stammered, her voice thin. The professor, a kindly woman with perpetually tired eyes, merely sighed. Emily shifted from one foot to the other, feeling the blood drain from her face. She'd stayed up all night, rehearsing the presentation, convinced she knew the material. The sting of the "D" was a physical blow. The world seemed to wobble. She reached a hand out to the table for support, her fingers trembling. A wave of profound disappointment washed over her.

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