tired - Story 151368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the heavy weight of exhaustion settle deep within him. His thoughts drifted aimlessly, disconnected and disjointed. The simplest tasks felt impossible. The walk to the mailbox was a journey he'd rather not take.

The metal door creaked open, revealing the daily accumulation of paper. Among the bills and advertisements, a birthday card. The message was simple, unsigned.

He traced the words with a finger, a deep, weary sigh escaping his lips. He knew he should feel happy, or at least a little bit touched. Instead, a profound sense of disconnection enveloped him. The card, beautiful as it was, couldn't pierce the thick fog that clouded his mind.

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