tired - Story 151402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Daniel as he unlocked the front door. The scent of lavender and mothballs, Grandma Elsie's signature, hit him with a nostalgic thud. He wanted to close the door, to just retreat. The car ride, the legal wrangling, the sheer weight of everything… It had all taken its toll. He rubbed a hand over his face, feeling the prickle of stubble.

His sister, Sarah, was already wandering through the living room, humming a tune. He heard her exclaim over a dusty painting. "Look at this, Daniel! Remember this one?" He couldn't muster an enthusiastic response, only a faint grunt. He wanted to sink into the nearest armchair and become one with it.

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