tired - Story 151297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The journey home felt longer than usual. The traffic, the road works, each hurdle was an obstacle. He'd imagined the evening, the faces, the laughter. Reaching his door, he was greeted by a single sentence on his phone: "Surprise party cancelled. Another time!" The weight of disappointment seemed to press against his ribs. He just wanted to shut the world out, the house seeming too big and too empty. He leaned against the closed door, the cool wood a small comfort.

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