tired - Story 151204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on him, turning the air thick and heavy. Each movement felt like wading through molasses. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that did little to alleviate the feeling of leaden limbs. He had barely slept, caught in the throes of a worrying thought.

He reached the front door, ready to leave. The car wasn't in the driveway. He let out a weary sound, a low rumble of disbelief. The sight of the vacant space felt like a deliberate insult.

“Oh, come on,” he grumbled, his voice lacking its usual vigor. This was just another complication he didn’t have the energy to navigate. He was done.

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