tired - Story 151280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the warehouse, the roar of machinery a grating sound. The transfer to the shipping department was supposed to be temporary, but it felt like an eternity. Robert was exhausted.

He watched the workers moving with speed and efficiency. He felt clumsy, slow. His head throbbed, and his body ached. He leaned against a pallet, trying to steady himself.

His supervisor, Mr. Henderson, barked an order. Robert blinked, forcing himself to move. The weight of the boxes felt crushing. He wanted to sit down, to rest, to disappear.

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