tired - Story 151088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, complaining about the placement of her rose bushes in relation to the proposed fence. From my perspective, I would not care; from hers, I must. I stared at the phone, willing it to stop.

The words felt like stones in my throat, each attempt at conversation requiring more energy than I knew I had. My legs ached. My mind, even more.

I let it ring until silence returned. I wanted the day to end. I wanted to lie down. I wanted...nothing.

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