tired - Story 151098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside felt stale, heavy with the ghosts of past conversations and old resentments. John dragged himself through the door, the key clattering against the metal. The familiar furniture, once a comfort, now felt like a cage.

His mother's "Welcome back!" echoed through the house. He forced a smile, knowing the questions would start soon. He wanted to scream.

He made it to the couch, sinking into its depths, the cushions swallowing him whole. The world felt muted, far away, and he wanted to stay there, in the quiet, for an eternity.

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