tired - Story 151168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer kept yelling, “Smile!” and Ethan plastered a grin on his face, feeling it crack and crumble beneath the pressure. His shoulders ached. He was surrounded by people, but felt profoundly alone. He needed to escape, to retreat into the silence of his own thoughts. His gaze drifted across the room, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. There she was. The sight of her instantly added weight to his already burdened frame.

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