tired - Story 151139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam sat on the worn bench outside the professor's office, the cool metal seeping through his jeans. He hadn't eaten properly in days, and the persistent throb behind his eyes was getting worse. The words of the professor echoed in his head, a constant, irritating buzz.

He had been working on his research for months, struggling to stay afloat. He had been so close, almost there. The accusations felt like a cruel joke, a betrayal of all the effort he had poured into this project.

He leaned back, resting his head against the brick wall. Everything felt distant, unreal. He just wanted a moment of peace.

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