tired - Story 151314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A persistent ache thrummed behind Mark’s eyes. He closed them momentarily, savoring the darkness, before reluctantly opening them again. The train journey had been exhausting, each passing stop chipping away at his already depleted reserves. He opened the door to their apartment.

He found Emily in the kitchen, carefully arranging herbs on a plate. “Guten Abend, mein Schatz,” she said softly, her back to him.

Mark stood rooted in the doorway, the world spinning slightly. German. His heart did a strange little flip. He leaned against the frame, feeling the wood press against his weary frame. The concept of conversation right now seemed impossible.

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