tired - Story 151444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup sat abandoned on the cluttered desk, the dark liquid now lukewarm and unappealing. Leo stared at the computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes. His eyelids felt heavy, pulling downwards.

His roommate, Daniel, was whistling a jaunty tune as he sorted through a stack of mail.

"Dude," Daniel said, "You okay? You look like you're about to fall over."

Leo ran a hand through his hair, the gesture lacking any energy or force. He was struggling to breathe.

He knew he should be studying, should be working on the group project, but the thought of any kind of intellectual exertion felt impossible.

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