tired - Story 151188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur of headlights and taillights. He felt it in his bones, a profound lack of vitality. Sarah’s call had come moments after he arrived. Her hurried excuses about “work” now echoed in his head. The phone calls, the secretive glances, the way she would retreat to the back porch to talk—it was all getting to him. He found his legs giving way to the floor; the world was spinning. He sunk to the couch, his fingers running through his hair.

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