tired - Story 151374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on him as he dragged the last box across the threshold. He could barely focus, the world swam before his eyes. All he wanted was to lie down, to close his eyes and disappear.

The previous owners had left a few things behind, including a decorative wall in the basement. He'd been too exhausted to remove it, but he noticed a draft coming from behind it. It had been like that for days.

He found a crowbar in the garage and pried away a section of the wall. Dusty air gusted out, carrying the scent of something ancient and unfamiliar. Inside was a small, bricked-in room, empty except for a tarnished silver key resting on the floor. He picked it up. His hand trembled.

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