tired - Story 151329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Lacking innovation… a stale performance…" the critic wrote. The words seared at the back of Jean's mind. The exhaustion pressed upon him, making him struggle to focus. He just wanted to shut everything down. He stumbled over to a stool, the world seemed to tilt as he sat. The air around him felt thick, suffocating. He rested his head in his hands, wishing the day was over. Even the simple motion of swallowing felt like effort.

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