tired - Story 151146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” the barista asked, her voice cheerful, but the young man didn’t meet her gaze. He simply nodded, reaching for his usual triple shot of espresso. The bitter liquid, meant to energize, felt like a burden. He’d made his way to the gallery to show his paintings to Ms. Rossi, a woman who inspired him and had always encouraged him. But the gallery was dark. The door locked. A note on the front window said Ms. Rossi had sold the gallery and moved. The espresso sat heavy in his stomach, and he pushed the cup away from him.

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