tired - Story 151550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold tile floor offered little comfort to Robert as he paced the kitchen. He had been a whirlwind of activity all day, yet nothing felt accomplished. The discovery of his son, Owen’s, hidden Discord server had left him feeling utterly flattened. The chat logs were filled with language he did not understand, and discussions he couldn't follow.

He was bone-weary, a feeling that had settled deep within him. All he wanted was to be alone. The weight of his responsibilities seemed heavier than usual. The task of talking to Owen, of navigating this new territory, seemed utterly beyond him. He felt as if he could barely breathe.

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