tired - Story 151209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He trudged towards the door, each step an exercise in willpower. The day stretched before him, an endless expanse of obligations. The world seemed to move in slow motion, blurring at the edges.

He blinked, the reality of the situation slamming into him. The car was missing. He sighed, a sound of profound deflation.

“Right,” he muttered, the word drained of any enthusiasm. The absence of his vehicle was just another obstacle in an already arduous journey, another reason to lay 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