tired - Story 151006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been up since dawn. The opening of his pop-up gallery had been a disaster. Sales were down, the critics were harsh, and the whole experience left him feeling…hollow. He felt the tension constricting his chest.

He was waiting for a bus when he saw it. A girl, her back to him, with a complex tattoo. He took a longer look, and a wave of confusion washed over him. The ink was a perfect replica of his “Fractured Reality” series. A feeling he didn’t quite understand settled over him.

He felt the abrupt need to sit. The bus came. He didn't board. He moved towards a nearby bench. He sat, staring at the ground, and just waited.

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