tired - Story 151519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Coach Johnson as he stood outside the team's practice field. He pulled his jacket tighter, the fabric failing to dispel the chill that seemed to seep into his bones. His mind was elsewhere. He needed to cut Kevin. He wanted to just forget everything he knew about the sport, about the kids.

The sky was a canvas of gray, mirroring the mood that had settled upon him. He watched Kevin walk towards him. The boy's face was open, hopeful. The coach took a deep breath, and felt his throat constrict. He spoke the words, and watched the boy's expression slowly transform, the vibrancy fading. He turned and walked away, not wanting to see the aftermath.

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