tired - Story 151378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to rejuvenate him. He leaned against the counter, staring blankly at the chaos surrounding him. The move had been relentless, and he felt every aching muscle. He simply wanted to be still.

He walked over to the dining room, where he saw a suspicious panel on the wall. It was perfectly placed, and felt out of place with the rest of the room. He ran his hand over the wall. He had a feeling about this.

He pressed against the panel, and it slid inwards. Behind it, a small wooden box sat on a shelf. Inside, he found a collection of old letters, each addressed to a name he didn't recognize.

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