tired - Story 151567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt endless. The rhythmic rumble of the engine was almost hypnotic, but not in a good way. It was only Tuesday, and already, Mark felt as if he was walking through thick mud. He'd agreed to go to Liam's party. He knew he should have chosen Maya’s, but was afraid of letting Liam down.

He rested his head against the cold glass of the window, watching the world blur past. He hoped that the party would be fun, but the thought felt like a distant possibility.

The bus lurched to a stop, and he rose. His legs felt shaky, and his head throbbed gently. He shuffled towards the door, looking down at his feet. The steps ahead felt like a mountain.

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