tired - Story 151376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't unpack yet," Liam had instructed his wife, as he was overwhelmed with a wave of exhaustion. The renovations were complete, but the thought of settling in was almost unbearable. His limbs felt heavy, and his mind was a confusing fog.

He stumbled into the library. The built-in bookshelves were a feature he particularly liked. As he ran his hand along the bottom shelf, he felt a subtle difference in the wood. It gave slightly. He pushed, the section of the bookshelf swung outward, revealing a narrow passageway.

His heart thudded in his chest. A set of stairs led downwards into the darkness. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, and started the descent.

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