tired - Story 151658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, filtering through the blinds, cast long shadows across the room. I reached for my phone, trying to summon the energy to text my sister. The message, meant for her, read: "Don't want to deal with it." It went, of course, to my overly-critical mother. The blood seemed to drain from my face. I sank further into the sofa cushions, my limbs heavy, my mind a blank slate. The idea of the ensuing phone call filled me with dread.

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