tired - Story 151137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation felt like a physical blow to Finn. He stared blankly at the printed document in his hands, his breath coming in shallow gasps. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He felt as if his body was filled with cement.

He'd spent weeks in the library, fueled by nothing but an overwhelming need to succeed. He hadn't seen sunlight in days. The lines between his own work and the source material had, somehow, become blurred.

His hands trembled, and he had to clench them into fists to stop the shaking. He wanted only to disappear.

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