tired - Story 151408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside was thick and still, carrying the scent of dried flowers. "Home sweet home?" Marcus heard his sister, Emily, say with a chuckle. His reply was a muted sound as he walked inside. The day’s journey and the legal meetings had leached the vitality from him. His head throbbed.

Emily was already exploring, opening drawers, touching objects. "Look at this! Remember this teapot?" He just wanted to close his eyes. He slowly made his way to a chair, wishing he could stay there forever.

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