tired - Story 151430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the coffee table, a stark white rectangle in a sea of forgotten mail. I knew it was coming. I'd been bracing myself for it.

The prospect of facing them, of answering questions, of pretending I was doing well, made me shudder. I just wanted to disappear.

I looked around the apartment, the familiar surroundings offering little comfort. Every task, every obligation, seemed to require a heroic effort. I slumped back on the couch, the invitation staring back at me.

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