tired - Story 151019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just... I'm really happy, Dad," Chloe said, her voice filled with a genuine contentment that stung. Her father, Richard, had just gotten home from a long day. He was expecting dinner. Instead, he was being told about his daughter's new direction in life. He’d always felt a disconnect with her, and now he felt it again.

He leaned back in his chair, the wood creaking beneath him. His eyes burned, and his vision blurred. He felt a profound sense of… something. Fatigue? Despair? He wasn’t sure. The world felt muffled, distant. He closed his eyes.

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