tired - Story 151622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He blinked at the screen, the blue light of his phone reflecting in his bleary eyes. The math problem on the worksheet swam before him, the numbers blurring. Each morning felt like a monumental effort. Then, the realization struck: Mr. Peterson, his physics teacher, had just requested to follow him. A wave of dread washed over him. He felt strangely exposed, as if someone had just pulled back the curtain on his thoughts. He just wanted to curl up somewhere quiet and sleep. He massaged his temples, a dull throb pulsating behind his eyes.

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