tired - Story 151915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, vibrating on the counter. Sarah stared at it, the message light flashing, taunting her. It was another email from the HOA. She just wanted to ignore it. A knock on the door made her jump.

It was Mr. Davis, a man who always seemed overly enthusiastic. He grinned. “Sarah! Just wanted to run something by you. That old oak…” He gestured towards the window and the offending tree.

Her head swam slightly. His voice, usually pleasant, grated on her nerves. Her fingers traced the outline of a mug on the counter.

“It’s getting a bit close to my shed,” he was saying. She just nodded, her jaw tight. The mental effort of forming a response felt exhausting.

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