tired - Story 151094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride back felt endless, the landscape blurring into a hazy streak. Mark parked in the driveway, the engine's rumble echoing in the stillness. Getting out felt like he was slogging through quicksand.

His mother, already at the door, waved with an enthusiasm he couldn’t reciprocate. The thought of forced cheeriness was exhausting.

“Welcome home, honey!” Her voice cracked with excitement. He managed a smile, but it felt brittle.

He had to move. He had to unpack. He felt it all would be too much. He just wanted to be still, to do 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