tired - Story 151370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, as if seen through a thick pane of glass. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. The simplest actions seemed to require herculean effort. The mailbox beckoned, a distant object on the horizon.

Inside: the usual. And a birthday card. "Happy Birthday!" it read, in an ornate, unfamiliar script. No name, no return address.

He leaned against the mailbox, the metal cold against his back. A wave of... emptiness washed over him. It was overwhelming. He closed his eyes, and the world seemed to tilt. The card slipped from his numb fingers.

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