tired - Story 151909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling. Professor Anya gave her class a smile, but her voice was tight. The announcement had affected everyone. The work felt pointless.

The students looked at her with wary eyes. They had questions she couldn’t answer. She knew she was expected to provide guidance, to offer encouragement. But she struggled to find the words.

Her own future felt uncertain, intertwined with the fate of the school. Standing before the class, she found her usual enthusiasm gone. She managed to mumble something about transferring credits and finding alternatives, but the words felt hollow. Her mind had retreated somewhere far away.

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