tired - Story 151454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air hung thick and stale. He leaned against the cubicle wall, the hum of the fluorescent lights buzzing in his ears. Work felt insurmountable. He’d arrived early, hoping to get a head start on the mountain of tasks that awaited, but the words on the page blurred before his eyes.

He’d taken the test out of curiosity, a fleeting desire to understand a vague disquiet he couldn't shake. The results had arrived yesterday, a stark announcement, a family he never knew existed. His phone vibrated with a message from an unknown number. He ignored it. He was done.

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