tired - Story 151333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Each step required an effort he wasn't sure he possessed. He sat on the bus, watching the rain streak down the window. The city seemed grey, a reflection of his mood. He pulled out his phone, scrolling through his emails absently. An uncharacteristic heaviness settled in his chest as he read the subject line: "Farewell from the Cozy Corner Cafe." A place where the aroma of fresh coffee once invigorated him, a place where he used to enjoy reading the paper on Sunday mornings. The thought of losing that routine left him with a strange emptiness.

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