tired - Story 151356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic door, a silent struggle waged in his mind. The thought of it... it felt like a monumental effort. He’d barely made it through the day. Every fiber of his being craved rest. He wanted nothing more than to simply *stop*.

The attic was a dusty labyrinth, a repository of forgotten belongings. He started to feel a headache coming on, and he could feel his shoulders slump, the weight of the day pressing down on him.

He spotted a dusty easel, pushed into a corner. On it sat a partially completed painting. He approached it, the movement slow and deliberate. The canvas showed a vibrant landscape, and for a moment, he forgot all his worries.

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