tired - Story 151499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I dragged myself up from the table, the rejection notice crumpled in my fist. The automatic dog-poop scooper, my brilliant creation, was already on the market. Someone beat me to it. The realization was physically draining. The world seemed to tilt.

I needed to collapse; that was all. I wanted to lie down and be done with it. The cafe was too bright, too loud, the smells of coffee and pastries too strong. Every step felt like wading through molasses.

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