tired - Story 151330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Uninspired… the chef seems to have lost his passion..." Liam closed the laptop, the words burning themselves onto his retinas. The bright lights of the kitchen seemed to have intensified, causing his eyes to water. He let out a sigh, his body feeling as if it weighed a ton. Every little task seemed to take an incredible amount of effort. He simply wanted to be somewhere quiet and still, far away from all the noise. He rubbed his temples, hoping to alleviate the pressure building there, but no relief was coming.

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