tired - Story 151262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the rain mirroring the gloom within. The rejection email from the university team sat open on his laptop screen, the words blurring. His shoulders sagged, and a deep ache pulsed behind his eyes. He’d poured his heart into this, hours spent perfecting his technique, sacrificing everything. Now, the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He slowly closed the laptop, the click a cavernous sound in the sudden silence. He just wanted the day to end.

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