tired - Story 151164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterer's hors d'oeuvres tasted like cardboard. David picked listlessly at a tiny quiche, the flavor doing little to rouse him from the inertia that had settled over him. He was supposed to be enjoying himself, celebrating with friends. The sheer obligation of it, however, weighed on him. He scanned the room, looking for a friendly face, a familiar connection. And then, there she was, chatting animatedly with someone at the bar. He took a long breath and slowly started towards her.

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