tired - Story 151925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down on her face, but she felt a chill. The simple act of walking to the bus stop felt like a Herculean task. The pavement seemed to tilt and sway beneath her feet.

She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. The journey home, a usually short trip, stretched into an eternity. Her thoughts were foggy, hard to grasp.

At the clinic, the doctor's words were a revelation: a shared genetic anomaly, a reason for the constant languor. Meeting another person with this same ailment brought clarity. She felt, for the first time in a very long time, seen.

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