tired - Story 151092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness filled Daniel's eyelids as he climbed the stairs, the banister cool and slick under his hand. He wasn't sure he could manage the unpacking tonight. The boxes in his old room sat waiting, mocking his energy.

“Daniel, is that you? Dinner’s almost ready!” His father’s booming announcement echoed from the kitchen.

He wanted to turn around, to go back outside and sit on the curb until dusk. Instead, he forced his feet forward. His legs felt like lead.

He found himself staring at the dinner table, the food's aroma making him queasy. "Everything okay, son?" his father asked, his brow furrowed with concern.

“Yeah, Dad. Fine,” Daniel mumbled, forcing a smile he didn't feel.

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