tired - Story 151199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, save for the rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. David slumped onto the sofa, the cushions sinking under his weight. He felt like his bones were made of lead. “Anything interesting happen today, honey?” he asked, his voice a low monotone.

His wife, Emily, walked in from the kitchen. “Well, yes, actually. The school sent out a welcome letter. Guess who your son's teacher is?”

David braced himself. “Who?”

“Mr. Evans! Can you believe it? The same Mr. Evans!”

He stared blankly at the ceiling. Mr. Evans. The stern, demanding man who had once seemed to loom over him for the entirety of his childhood. He closed his eyes. The thought of it, of reliving it all over again, felt like a punishment.

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