tired - Story 151289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent ringing of the doorbell was like nails on a chalkboard to Michael. He dragged himself to the door, a heavy sensation in his chest. A friend request from Bradley “Bully” Barnes, now also followed him on Instagram. Seriously?

He felt a deep sense of irritation bubbling up inside him. The need to respond felt like a physical pressure, demanding attention he didn't have to give.

He just wanted to be left alone to watch TV. He closed the door. He’d ignore it, leave it to rot, and maybe later he'd go get a snack.

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