tired - Story 151067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. A wave of apathy washed over him, a deep sense of powerlessness. He felt too weary to be angry, too drained to be disappointed. He stared blankly at the ceiling, the familiar patterns of the stucco now alien and confusing. The essay he had spent weeks on, the hopes he had pinned on the scholarship – all gone, vanished. He didn't want to do anything, think anything, feel anything.

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