tired - Story 151442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the notebook out of place, slightly askew on his desk, not in the usual spot. A prickle of unease ran down his spine. Liam dragged himself to the chair, the creak of the wood echoing in the quiet room.

His roommate, Mark, was at his usual spot at his gaming computer.

“Hey,” Mark said. “You look…done.”

Liam managed a weak wave in response, his throat suddenly dry. The air seemed thick with unspoken accusations. He reached for the journal, his hands feeling clumsy and slow. He flipped open the cover.

The ink seemed to swim before his eyes. It was a chore to focus on the words. His head felt like it was filled with cotton.

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