tired - Story 151265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee?" His mother's voice was a gentle prodding, but it felt amplified in the sudden quiet of the kitchen. Mark barely nodded, staring blankly at the swirling steam. He felt as though every part of him was underwater. The disappointment was a cold, constricting weight. The tryouts, the effort, the hopes – all for nothing. He took a sip, the warmth doing nothing to cut through the chill that had settled deep within him.

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