tired - Story 151365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed in on him. He hadn’t spoken to anyone all day, and the lack of human contact left a hollowness inside him. He felt drained, as if a vital substance had slowly leaked away. The walk to the mailbox was slow, almost robotic.

He retrieved the mail: flyers, a bill, and a birthday card. The handwriting was unfamiliar, the message a generic "Happy Birthday."

He held the card for a long moment, turning it over and over. A wave of melancholic emptiness washed over him. The anonymity made it all the more poignant, a gentle reminder of the connections he felt he'd lost. He slowly closed the mailbox, the metal door echoing in the quiet street.

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