tired - Story 151145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engine of the train roared in his ears, a mechanical groan that mirrored his own inner state. He stared out the window, the passing landscape a blur of greens and browns. The train rattled and swayed, and he closed his eyes. At the academy, his teacher, Master Kenji, had always been there to provide support. He was gone. The dojo was closed. He found a piece of paper, a single quote scrawled by his teacher, and held it to his chest. The familiar words felt foreign.

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