tired - Story 151270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the track, his steps slow and deliberate. The familiar rhythm of his feet on the rubber surface usually soothed him. Today, however, it seemed to amplify the internal turmoil. The rejection had left him feeling hollow. He felt a deep ache in his bones, as if his body was rejecting the very essence of his being. He stopped, leaned against the railing, and just looked out at the deserted track, the weight of the day pressing down on 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