tired - Story 151656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bright rectangle in his hand. He’d wanted to text his teammate, asking about tomorrow’s game. Instead, his thumb had guided the message, “Can't go on” to his therapist. He felt a chill run down his spine. The air in his apartment seemed thick, heavy. He glanced at the ceiling, thinking about all he had to do. He could barely focus on the screen in his hand, the weight of everything pressing down on him.

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