tired - Story 151190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. James felt leaden. He observed, from the doorway, as Lisa, his partner, spoke urgently into the phone, her voice barely a whisper. She seemed to avoid his gaze, her posture stiff and wary. This pattern had been repeating for months. Every muscle in his body felt heavy. He wanted nothing more than to curl up in a ball and disappear. He retreated to the bedroom and closed the door, the world fading to gray around 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