tired - Story 151313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, everything softened at the edges. Liam dropped his keys on the hall table with a thud. The sound echoed unnaturally loud in the sudden quiet of the apartment. He kicked off his shoes, the action feeling like an insurmountable effort. Then, from the bedroom, came a melodic string of phrases.

He froze. It was his partner, Chloe. Speaking… French? He pushed himself forward, drawn by the sound.

The bedroom door was slightly ajar. He peered inside and saw Chloe, headphones on, carefully enunciating words from a video on her laptop. He wanted to say something, but the words felt like they were stuck at the bottom of a deep well. He simply leaned against the doorframe, watching.

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