tired - Story 151559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, hard floor of the hallway felt like a comforting embrace. He sank against the wall, his limbs heavy. His roommate, Chloe, was practically skipping, holding a leash. A dog. Of course. The thought of walks, of responsibilities, of another living being to care for… it was all too much. He just wanted to be alone. He closed his eyes, willing the world to fade away. “Chloe,” he said quietly, his voice a gravelly whisper, “Please… not now.”

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