tired - Story 151248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My eyelids were glued together, and I felt leaden. The doctor's voice was a distant murmur, lost in the fog of my exhaustion. I fought to keep my eyes open, to understand what he was saying. I felt a growing sense of detachment, as if I were a puppet watching my strings being cut.

The diagnosis wasn't mine. I knew it immediately. The details were alien, a foreign language I couldn't comprehend. I wanted to scream, to lash out, but the energy simply wasn't there. I just wanted to go somewhere quiet.

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