tired - Story 151024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Michael sprawled on the couch, the remote control slipping from his grasp. He felt a profound sense of lethargy, a want for nothing.

His sister, Emily, was visiting with her daughter, five-year-old Sophia. Sophia was chattering animatedly, showing him her latest drawings. Most of them were filled with brightly coloured characters. Then, she held up one that made his heart skip a beat. It was a drawing of a smiling creature with long, spindly limbs.

"This is Pip," Sophia announced, her eyes sparkling. "He lives in the garden, and we have the best adventures together!" Michael felt a sudden thrum of something he had forgotten. He looked at the drawing, the world's colours seeming muted in comparison to his inner world. He wanted to close his eyes and drift.

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