tired - Story 151989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was already dipping below the horizon, painting the sky in shades of orange and purple. The notice, slipped under her door, lay crumpled on the floor. She stepped over it without a glance.

She had spent the day at her desk. The office felt like a cage. Her shoulders were tense, her eyes stung. She opened the fridge, the interior light casting a stark glow. The thought of cooking was exhausting.

She grabbed a yogurt from the shelf, then slumped onto the couch. The evening news droned on in the background. She felt utterly depleted, and the prospect of the upcoming changes felt like one more weight.

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