tired - Story 151537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along, each jolt a physical reminder of the news. Liam stared out the window, his gaze unfocused. The city lights blurred into streaks, resembling the tears he couldn’t seem to shed. The realization of the error, the scholarship misallocation, had sucked the color from his world. He wanted to curl up in a ball and disappear. He felt drained, his limbs heavy, his mind clouded with a thick fog.

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