tired - Story 151933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had a kind smile, but his words barely registered. She accepted the bouquet, a riot of reds and purples, and shuffled back to her desk. The office felt like a pressure cooker.

She sank into her chair, the floral arrangement a vibrant splash against the monotonous grey. A quick search of the flowers' arrival - no card. Her thoughts were foggy, the details of the day blurring together. She struggled to focus on the report in front of her.

She rubbed her temples, a dull ache throbbing behind her eyes. Time seemed to stretch and warp. The world appeared distant, muffled. A long day remained.

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