tired - Story 151905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the dining hall sounded like a symphony of noise to Clara. She sat with her friends, picking at her food with zero interest. The joy of the simple routine of eating with them had vanished. They were all in the same boat, but the weight of the news was crushing her.

Her mind wandered, replaying the moment she'd read the announcement. A wave of disbelief, followed by a profound sense of numbness, had washed over her. Now, everything felt distant, as though viewed through a thick pane of glass.

She looked at her friend's faces, seeking comfort, but their expressions matched her own: a kind of weary resignation. Each bite was a chore, the conversation faded into the background, and all she wanted was to be alone. Her body ached.

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