tired - Story 151246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Davies, can you please take a seat?” The doctor’s voice cut through the fog in his mind. He shuffled into the chair, the cushioning doing little to alleviate the feeling of being utterly drained. He stared at the chart, the letters blurring before his eyes.

He had looked forward to the appointment, hoping for relief from his persistent ailments. Instead, he was met with a different name, a different set of problems entirely. He wanted to argue, to protest, but the energy for it was gone. His head was heavy.

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