tired - Story 151310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, typically welcome, felt harsh against the windows of Martin’s office, amplifying his sense of utter exhaustion. The knowledge settled in his stomach like a lump of cold iron. The new executive assistant, with her shiny new car and endless energy, was making more than he was.

He wanted to stay in bed. The thought of the mountain of work ahead of him was enough to bring him to his knees. His gaze drifted to the window, the city a vibrant blur of colors, a world away from his own quiet desperation.

The door opened. It was the assistant. "The CEO wants to see you." Her words seemed to reverberate in his ears. Martin just nodded, the weight of the day settling upon him once more.

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