tired - Story 151109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office, normally a hive of activity, seemed muffled today. John felt as though he were trapped in a soundproof box. The email, *Training Schedule: John – assist with onboarding Amelia*, was a weight on his shoulders.

Amelia was a quick learner, asking intelligent questions. But John, he simply could not keep up.

He closed his eyes, and he felt the room spin. He wanted to shut out the world. He felt like his limbs weighed a ton. He sat up, took a deep breath, and he felt the blood pound in his ears. He wanted to get this over with.

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