tired - Story 151117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket bat felt heavy in Rohan’s hands. His coach's words replayed in his mind: "Rohan, we need you to try fielding in the slips." Rohan, normally a bowler, found the thought disheartening.

He stood in the field, his legs screaming in protest. The ball zipped past him. He felt disconnected, his reaction time sluggish. The sun seemed to bore into him, and his focus kept drifting.

He just wanted to lean against something, to close his eyes and disappear. The game, which once excited him, now felt like a chore.

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