tired - Story 151119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of defeat washed over Ben as the hockey coach spoke. "Ben, we are putting you on defense." He’d always been a forward.

He skated onto the ice, the cold seeping into his bones. His usual burst of speed was absent. His stick felt heavy, his reflexes slow. The puck seemed to move at twice the speed.

He just wanted to sit in the locker room, to disappear into the shadows. The cheers of the crowd felt distant, the game an exercise in futility.

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