tired - Story 151965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, low in the sky, cast long, distorted shadows across the living room. Sarah collapsed onto the floor, the remnants of lunch scattered around her. The kids were with their grandparents, giving her a rare stretch of solitude. It did little to revitalize her. The laundry was piled up. The bills needed paying.

She found it under the bed. A dog-eared notebook, hidden away. Her husband, Ben's, handwriting. She opened it, scanning the page. *Learn to play the guitar*. A single tear tracked down her cheek.

The thought of finding a guitar and playing was too much.

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