tired - Story 151449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room felt cramped, the air thick with the smell of stale pizza and unwashed clothes. The buzzing of the overhead light seemed amplified, drilling into Leo’s skull. He closed his eyes.

His roommate, Alex, was sitting on his bed, earbuds in, oblivious to Leo’s presence.

"Ugh," Leo mumbled.

Alex looked up, frowning. "What's wrong? You seem like you got hit by a truck."

Leo just shook his head, unable to explain the oppressive weight pressing down on him. The mundane details of life – the unread emails, the looming deadlines – felt like insurmountable obstacles.

The world was too much.

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