tired - Story 151106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, so this is the… the thing," Michael said, his voice flat. He pointed at the spreadsheet on the screen. He could barely focus on the numbers himself. His email read: *Michael to Train New Hire, David*.

David, however, was full of energy and questions. It was all a bit too much for Michael. He just wanted to be alone with a cup of tea. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his head, but it was to no avail.

“Can you repeat that, Michael?” David asked. Michael repeated himself, each word an effort. It all felt so… arduous.

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