tired - Story 151426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion?" I muttered, tossing the envelope onto the overflowing countertop. It landed with a soft thud, unnoticed amongst the clutter. Everything seemed to demand an effort that felt beyond me.

My shoulders slumped, and I leaned against the cold ceramic of the counter. The thought of getting ready, of finding something to wear, of actually interacting with people, was daunting.

The clock ticked. Another reminder of the obligations that lay ahead. I just wanted to be still.

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