tired - Story 151620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his fingers. A sigh escaped his lips. The speech was due soon. He looked around the room, the other faces blurred. Everything seemed muffled.

He needed to get through this, for his mother. He stood at the podium, and began. His voice felt slow, his words clumsy. He forgot lines and stumbled. The effort of thought, of expression was a burden.

When it was over, he managed to smile, a flimsy, fragile thing. The applause seemed distant, the sounds fading. He felt the pull of sleep, a heavy, welcoming pull.

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