tired - Story 151390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world felt like it was resting on Michael's shoulders as he walked through the crowded farmer's market. He felt the constant need to sit down. He moved slowly. The bright colours of the stalls and the cheerful chatter of the crowd did nothing to lift his spirits. Then, he spotted *him*. The man was laughing with a woman, and that laugh… It was her laugh. Michael felt the blood drain from his face as he watched her. She was wearing the bracelet. He remembered every detail.

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