tired - Story 151200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the grocery store buzzed, amplifying the general dullness of the evening. He was pushing a cart, and each step felt like he was wading through molasses. "Anything you need, honey?" he asked.

"Just some milk, I think," his wife replied, her voice sounding equally depleted.

His son walked over to him with a slight frown on his face. "Hey, dad, I need you to sign this form. It's for my teacher."

He took the form and read it. "Mr. Harrison?" he asked, feeling the air leave his lungs.

His son nodded.

Mr. Harrison. The same Mr. Harrison who, decades ago, had assigned him countless pages of homework. He just wanted to lie down.

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