tired - Story 151429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the invitation, his fingers brushing against the crisp paper. The memories flooded his mind, a wave of nostalgia that felt both comforting and painful.

The thought of seeing everyone again, of rehashing old stories, of being on show, left him feeling drained. The idea of the demands required of him seemed to suffocate him.

He sighed, the sound barely audible in the quiet room. He felt as though the invitation was a physical weight in his hands, and the idea of attending felt like climbing a mountain.

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