tired - Story 151982 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She dragged herself into the lobby, the weight of her briefcase feeling immense. The air inside felt thick, the scent of old carpet and something vaguely floral clinging to her. A brightly colored flyer, announcing the condo conversion, lay plastered across the once-dingy bulletin board.

Her jaw clenched. The thought of uprooting, of finding a new place, filling out more paperwork, felt like trying to swim through concrete. Her shoulders ached as she rode the elevator.

The apartment, usually a haven, felt suffocating. The sunlight seemed unusually bright, demanding her attention when all she wanted was to fade into the shadows. The phone buzzed with an email. Work beckoned, but her brain felt like a scrambled egg.

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