tired - Story 151323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uninspired… lacking spark…" David read aloud, the words tasting like ash in his mouth. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble scrape against his skin. The restaurant, his dream, now felt like a lead weight dragging him down. He closed his eyes and imagined himself on a beach, the sound of the waves. His knees felt shaky, his bones heavy. He’d envisioned a vibrant, thriving space. Now, the tables were empty and the air felt suffocating. He needed a break, a long, long break.

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