tired - Story 151249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words echoed in Leo's ears. He felt a profound sense of emptiness, a hollowness that seemed to emanate from the very core of his being. He sat there, his shoulders slumped, barely able to lift his head. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive.

He had been hoping for answers, but he had received a tangle of information that belonged to someone else. The paperwork in his hands felt impossibly heavy. He couldn't muster the strength to react, to question the error. He wanted to vanish.

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