tired - Story 151897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be right,” I whispered, my voice barely audible. I ran my hand through my hair, feeling the strands slick with sweat. The numbers on the page seemed to taunt me. I had studied harder than ever, sacrificing everything. The thought of all the effort being for nothing sent a shiver down my spine. My vision blurred. All I wanted was for the ground to open up and swallow me. I just wanted to go to sleep.

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