tired - Story 151427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. John watched them, mesmerized, as he sat on the couch, the invitation clutched loosely in his hand.

He felt the weight of the day, of the weeks before, settling into his bones. The party would be later this year. The thought of dressing up and pretending to care made him want to shrink into himself.

He closed his eyes, the world outside fading into a hazy blur. The invitation felt like a physical burden in his palm.

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