tired - Story 151099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive seemed to stretch on forever, the scenery blurring into an indistinguishable wash. As he parked the car in front of his parents' house, the engine's quiet ticking felt like a metronome, counting down the time until he had to *do* something.

He sat for a moment, head against the headrest, the world tilting slightly. Opening the car door required more effort than he could spare.

The house, once a haven, now felt oppressive. His mother, at the doorway, was already calling his name.

"I'm here, Mom," he mumbled, his voice a gravelly whisper.

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