tired - Story 151162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sank into a chair near the open bar, the wedding music a distant thrumming. The tie felt like a noose, and he loosened it, letting it dangle against his shirt. He was pretty sure he’d RSVP’d to this thing weeks ago. Now, staring at the swirling patterns on the tablecloth, he questioned every choice he’d ever made. He knew he should mingle, work the room, be the charming guest. But the effort… the thought of it felt mountainous. Then, she walked past, laughing, her arm linked with someone else. A sudden lurch in his stomach followed.

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