tired - Story 151997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, the fluorescent lights humming overhead. She reread the blurb under her essay’s title, her name printed in bold. Her chest felt constricted. The essay about her volunteer work at the animal shelter. She’d crafted it with such care. She felt the heavy urge to just go and take a nap.

She leaned her elbows on the table, resting her head in her hands. She could hear the faint murmur of other students, the rustle of turning pages, the distant chime of the library clock. Everything felt muffled, distant, and utterly… blah.

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