tired - Story 151438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone in the otherwise quiet office. John stared at the spreadsheet on his computer screen. The financial reports for his business were dismal. A competitor was selling a carbon copy of his "Spicy Sichuan Noodles" recipe, and stealing all his customers. He was exhausted.

He dropped his head on his desk, the cool surface a momentary relief. He wanted to sleep for a week. He needed to get up, but his limbs wouldn’t cooperate. The weight of it all was crushing.

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