tired - Story 151616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page, a cursor blinking mockingly. The laptop screen cast a dim light in the otherwise dark room. Daniel ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that was slower than usual.

He needed to write the speech. He knew the words, the anecdotes, the fond memories. But the effort was too great. The mental exertion felt impossible.

He slumped in his chair, the weight of the task pressing down on him. The world seemed muffled. He closed his eyes, for just a moment. He imagined a quiet room, and the soft feeling of a pillow.

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