tired - Story 151425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box clattered to the floor as Michael reached for it, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. He knelt to pick it up, his muscles protesting the movement. Another package, another bill.

The reunion invitation was nestled amongst the junk mail. He held it up, the glossy paper feeling strangely alien in his hand. He hadn't thought about high school in years.

He ran a hand across his face, a gesture as weary as it was habitual. The idea of having to prepare himself for the night, of remembering names and faking interest, made his stomach tighten.

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