tired - Story 151276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one bites the dust," muttered Richard under his breath as he walked into the engineering department for his first day. He felt like his limbs were lead. The transfer was the result of a restructuring, a reshuffle, a bureaucratic shuffle he was sick of.

He sat at his new desk and stared at the empty space. He hadn't bothered to bring anything with him. He was supposed to be designing a new bridge, and the sheer scale of the project was already weighing on him.

He took a slow sip from the lukewarm coffee in his travel mug. He just wanted to close his eyes for a moment. But there was work to be done. He started, reluctantly, flipping open his laptop.

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