tired - Story 151166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd promised himself he wouldn't drink too much, but the second glass of wine went down with unsettling ease. John found himself staring at the intricate patterns on the ceiling. The loud laughter, the forced conversation, the sheer spectacle of it all, felt like an insurmountable obstacle. He just wanted to disappear. Then, he spotted her, standing near the dessert table, her face illuminated by the flickering candlelight. A wave of something akin to a slow collapse began within 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